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Billionaires Convince Themselves Chatbots Close to Making Scientific Discoveries

https://gizmodo.com/billionaires-convince-themselves-ai-is-close-to-making-new-scientific-discoveries-2000629060
16•maartenscholl•9h ago

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d00mB0t•9h ago
Has AI finally Jumped the shark? I hope so.
fcpguru•9h ago
not sure this title is fair. I would title it: "Are AI Models on the Verge of Scientific Discovery? Tech Leaders Think So — and They Might Be Right"
bigbuppo•9h ago
Can we use it to convince them that it knows how to create a perfectly safe rocket carrying a fully-working permanent settlement as well as a full complement of billionaire founding colonists for a one-way trip to a tech utopia on Mars that totally exists right now if they can just figure out how to get there?
alganet•8h ago
I wonder if the profession of the future won't be rogue AI hunter.
LarryMade2•6h ago
Chatbots aren't Jarvis from Iron Man - They are Cliff Claven from Cheers.
fuzzfactor•4h ago
Billionaires don't have enough money to deploy the scientific discoveries that have already been made.

Nobody could ever afford half of mine and I'm only one person.

Scientific discovery is not where the bottleneck lies.

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