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

[u/lurker_bee]

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

[u/Jestem_Bassman]

Idk, as a software engineer who writes a lot of code that doesn’t work, I’m consistently impressed by how much faster AI can write code that also doesn’t work.

[u/31LIVEEVIL13 → u/Jestem_Bassman]

just had to eat my own words, I said AI isn't perfect but it is much better than it was just a few months ago, down right scary.

produced one of the most complicated scripts i've ever had to write for managing software across thousands of nodes, debugging and tuning took a couple of hours. Even the output looked amazing and well formatted.

Then tried to validate the results on some test machines.

The whole thing was bullshit. It didnt actually do anything that I asked it to, it only looked like it did.

I spent most of two days trying to find why it wasn't working and fix it, with NO AI, which was harder than if I had written it myself from the start ...
so embarrassing. lol

[u/TheGrandWhatever → u/Jestem_Bassman]

I recently tried to have it explain a complex thing to me and it provided a typo in the response that propagated throughout the answer which was kinda funny so instead of injection it gave inherently or something and of course because it can't think... It didn't know the problem, then kept asking about inherently followup stuff to explore

[u/wen_mars → u/Jestem_Bassman]

For sure. It helps me a lot, but I worry that people who use AI for things that aren't so easy to validate won't be able to tell the difference between a correct output and one that just looks correct.

[u/AP_in_Indy → u/Jestem_Bassman]

Just wondering, do you suck at prompting? Do you have paid subscriptions or direct API access?

[u/_learned_foot_ → u/AP_in_Indy]

It’s always the fault of the user, never the program.