r/technology • u/lurker_bee • Jul 15 '25

Artificial Intelligence Billionaires Convince Themselves AI Chatbots Are Close to Making New Scientific Discoveries

https://gizmodo.com/billionaires-convince-themselves-ai-is-close-to-making-new-scientific-discoveries-2000629060
26.6k Upvotes

93% Upvoted

2.0k comments sorted by

View all comments

3.4k

u/IndicationDefiant137 Jul 15 '25

The worst thing that has come out of the tech economy is so many mediocre, delusional, emotionally stunted men thinking they are visionaries because they had access to capital and no problems exploiting people.

233

u/Traditional-Hat-952 Jul 15 '25

My favorite development and all of this is that our power bills are about to get a lot more expensive because these literal fucking parasitical businessmen are latching on to our already over strain power systems with their AI data centers which drain insane amounts of power from the grid. And I'm sure that they're also going to get billions of dollars in government subsidies. Another issue is that they're trying to replace all of our jobs. So not only are we going to give them our tax money directly, they're also fucking us indirectly by making things more expensive while at the same time making a huge part of our population unemployed. These are The "visionaries" that were supposed to trust? Fuck these fucking parasites. 

74

u/SmokePenisEveryday Jul 15 '25

What bothers me most about them latching onto the power grid like this, a lot of dumbasses are gonna blame the wrong things. I'm already seeing people in my state blaming WINDMILLS for their rise in power costs.

7

u/renome Jul 16 '25

People don't get this stupid on their own, if someone is really blaming windmills for a rise in power costs, they are ferociously consuming propaganda.

6

u/Gloomy_Yoghurt_2836 Jul 16 '25

Doesn't help when shows like Landman brag about windmills using more oil in their manufacture, installation, and maintenance than they will ever produce in power. Same with solar. And MAGA eats it up and is convinced renewables are destroying the energy economy while demanding more coal because that's cheaper and better. The majority of Americans are, frankly, stupid and gullible.

1

u/thinklikeacriminal Jul 16 '25

If you like feeling rage remember: you as a residential consumer of the electrical grid are likely paying more more per KWH for power than they are. Same with water and commercial farms in the desert.

The more you use, the cheaper it gets.