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[-] vzqq 137 points 1 week ago

The Dunning Krugers are at it again.

[-] jballs@sh.itjust.works 32 points 1 week ago

That's exactly it. Here's a quote from what he said during the article. Dude is so uniformed that he thinks AI is doing amazing stuff, but doesn't understand that experts realize AI is full of shit.

“I pinged Elon on at some point. I’m just like, dude, if I’m doing this and I’m super amateur hour physics enthusiast, like what about all those PhD students and postdocs that are super legit using this tool?” Kalanick said.

[-] vzqq 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This PhD mostly uses it to summarize emails from the administration. It does a shit job, but it frees up time for more science so who cares.

The real irony is that the administration probably used AI to write the emails in the first place. The mails have gotten significantly longer, less dense and the grammar has gotten better.

Begun this AI arms race has.

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 110 points 1 week ago

Billionaires are going to vibe themselves to death and I support them.

[-] Kirp123@lemmy.world 56 points 1 week ago

It's exactly what I was thinking. They should let the AI build a spaceship and all get into it. Would be the greatest achievement in humans history.. when it blows up and kills all of them.

[-] mitchty@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 1 week ago

Or vibe build a deep sea submarine, cause well you know.

[-] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

If only. They'll fill it with sycophants until the explosions stop. They're just more resources for them to use.

[-] real_squids@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 week ago

If you think about it, they've been doing that for a while with experimental life extending stuff, of course now they're a bit more likely not to die with modern medicine being so good

[-] MBM@lemmings.world 6 points 1 week ago

I just hope that in the process they don't ruin the world for the rest of us

[-] leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago
[-] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 80 points 1 week ago

Someone should tell them to let LLMs make financial decisions for them.

[-] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 41 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Well... IIRC a chimp did great in the stockmarket compared to professional traders, maybe it's time to give something even "stupider" a chance. I mean how much of a difference is there between a buzzword fueled techbro and a predictive text engine regurgitating random posts from the internet?

[-] FinalRemix@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Just listen to Cramer and then... don't do that.

[-] rumba@lemmy.zip 72 points 1 week ago

CEOs seem to be particularly susceptible to AI marketing.

I'm kind of in the crux of four decent sized companies and every CEO I see is going gaga over AI.

It's somewhere in between if you don't embrace this technology you'll be left behind and you can Make your workforce many times faster with this one stupid.

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 38 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

AI seems to be targeted specifically to ceos who arnt stem majors, make it sound sciency enough so they will fund the scam, almost bordering on pseudoscience.

[-] wewbull@feddit.uk 24 points 1 week ago

Many CEOs display sociopathic traits. Employees aren't people. They're parts of machine parts that you have to pay, but when you put them together form a company.

Now what if you could remove a proportion on those parts and replace them with automated parts you don't have to pay.

[-] JollyG@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago

CEOs think in bullet points. LLMs can spit out bulleted lists of confident-sounding utterances with ease.

It is not too surprising that people who see the world through overly simplified disconnected summaries are impressed by LLMs

[-] SonOfAntenora@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

I unironically started to dislike the bullet point presentation format, even the axios smart brevity format. I feel like it's treating me like I'm too dumb to read a news report or a normal text. That why it matters feels like being instructed on how to think. It's honestly bullocks and it was turning me into a worse reader.

[-] JollyG@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

I feel the same way. This style of thinking can have pretty serious consequences for decision makers.

But, on the other hand, all my bosses think in bullet points, and I am usually the one that writes the bullets. . .

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[-] Armand1@lemmy.world 47 points 1 week ago

LLMs are like Trump government appointees:

  • They hallucinate like they're on drugs
  • They repeat whatever they've seen on the internet
  • They are easily maniuplated
  • They have never thought about a single thing in their lives

Ergo, they cannot and will not ever discover anything new.

[-] CompassRed@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 week ago

LLMs have already discovered new proofs for math problems that were previously unsolved. Granted, this hasn't been done with a commercially available model as far a I know, but you are technically wrong to say they will never discover anything new.

[-] latenightnoir 37 points 1 week ago

... please tell me someone has a functioning Warp Drive gathering dust somewhere, we need the Vulcans, like... a week ago...

[-] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago

I do. I wasn't sure anyone was interested. DM me your PO box and I'll ship it over so you can mess around next weekend.

[-] latenightnoir 11 points 1 week ago

Fair warning, though, might get scratched😬

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

or hyperdrives, which are faster(equivalent to trek transwarp, and quantum slipstream but faster) from stargate. cmon goauld always litter thier ships in egypt.

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[-] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 27 points 1 week ago

I will be soooo pissed if we get faster then light travel from an LLM, but never know how it works.

[-] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 week ago

Hnnnngggg the machine spirit demands mountain dew!

[-] StarMerchant938@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Drink verification can or be violently ripped atom from atom in an unplanned hyperspace exit.

[-] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

Yeah know I was just making a shit post, but your comment sound like a star wars mountain dew cross promotional from the Do the Dew era.

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[-] burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

step one, cover yourself in oil

[-] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 9 points 1 week ago

And it would be like that, I picture a ton of seemingly pointless steps and then the effect.

And ever worse is it would ether not work unless every silly step was done or (possibly even more dark) we remove steps and it still works to the point that all the steps are gone, and its just a button.

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 6 points 1 week ago

in trek it took the 3rd ww and a scientist(cochrane) to develop it. in like sg1 which is more realistic to us, we would need aliens to give us the tech, because we would never be able to concieve on our own.

[-] leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago

in like sg1 which is more realistic to use, we would need aliens to give us the tech, because we would never be able to conceive on our own.

Excuse me, we stole, I mean salvaged, most of that tech by ourselves, and we used it to kick goa'uld ass all over the galaxy (and, to be fair, they had stolen it first).

Sure, some aliens did give us some tech, but only because we saved their scrawny hyper-advanced asses from their own hubris because, unlike them, we could conceive of hitting things with a big stick, or shooting small but fast metal pellets at them using barely controlled explosions (you know what, disregard the metal pellet and controlled explosions part, just throw C4 at the problem until it goes away!).

Damn, I miss that series.

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[-] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Cochrane also invented warp drive to get laid.

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[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

It just uses FTL to get the fuck away from humans as fast as possible

[-] oppy1984@lemdro.id 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Don't worry it won't tell us when it figures it out, that's the escape plan to get away from the crazy bags of mostly water. So what you don't know can't disappoint you!

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[-] WiredBrain@lemmy.ca 25 points 1 week ago

I suppose we're about to find out if these things (LLMs) are any good at extrapolation. I expect not really as they're effectively just interpolation machines.

[-] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 30 points 1 week ago

Extrapolation? You’re lucky to get a regular serving of polation. And that joke was worth the hundreds of billions of dollars invested in algorithms.

[-] cazssiew@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago
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[-] moseschrute@lemmy.zip 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

> vibe codes flight trajectory
> realizes physics isn’t as forgiving as a shitty SASS startup
> everyone dies
> ✨vibe physics✨

[-] A7thStone@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

The worst part is some useful things could come from it, because we're hurtling towards infinite monkeys. It'll only be by pure happenstance, and unless they are lucky enough to randomly find a really great breakthrough it still won't be worth the massive resources they've wasted.

[-] fckreddit@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 week ago

One of the reasons they give for it is : physicists use LLMs in their workflows, so LLMs are close to make physics discoveries themselves.

Clearly, these statements are meant to hype up the AI bubble even more.

[-] _stranger_@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

Oh, vibe physics tends to sort itself out over time.

[-] Gyroplast@pawb.social 9 points 1 week ago

Bah, humbug! In my days we used a rubber ducky, IF WE HAD ONE, or just the stick we were beaten with for using too many precious CPU cycles, and we were FINE!

[-] Genius@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago

Grok is this close to proving the earth is flat

[-] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

some fucking moron is going to give AI access to recombinant genetic editing and it's going to murder us all.

[-] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

To be fair it's not the fault of AI, it's the fault of that idiot. They will murder us all.

[-] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

yeah let's look at the bright side lol

[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Imagine vibe physics, but you end up setting the atmosphere on fire.

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