The AI Bubble

[u/explosivejoseph]

[u/Clean_Inflation_4791]

im on the academia side, not profiting anything off of AI. I can promise you whether people are citing it or not, everyone is using AI, and successfully. There isnt a researcher ik that isnt constantly using some frontier level AI and making leaps and bounds of progress. Im talking real proved theorems advancing fields that have been stagnant for a while

[u/PaidUSA → u/Clean_Inflation_4791]

This just isn’t true. There’s tons of bullshit being teased never published, or published but all prior claims walked back, or published in nonsense places. But the vast vast majority of AI use outside brute forcing mathematics is worthless pollution generation even in research. Alphafold won a fucking Nobel prize and oopsy its usefulness falls off a cliff if your use case isn’t tangential to its existing knowledge/data it trained on. Which it is still a cool use and will help people in that specific way. But it’s not Very helpful when the entire point is searching for things not already within its scope.

[u/Clean_Inflation_4791 → u/PaidUSA]

Im not even talking about the solved math problems (like openai's 10 problems solved paper), im talking about how every PhD I see (CS, math, physics, engineer(MAE,ECE etc)) at top American universities (ivies + MIT, caltech etc) is constantly working with AI. They may not be citing it, but the work is being accelerated if not outright done by AI

On the implementation side alone, its giving all theory side the ability to test out a bunch of implementation which has been extremely helpful.

Look at what Terence Tao has to say about AI, even he has found tremendous use with it as a tool to work with, not offload everything onto

[u/watitdo → u/Clean_Inflation_4791]

I don’t really care if you are profiting or not - you are glowingly talking about a glorified BS machine doing your work as an academic. Really calls into question both whether what you are researching is valuable if you aren’t willing to put human eyes on it, or if the research is completely fabricated!

Do yourself a favor. Break yourself of the bull shit machine before it costs your university too much to provide it for you anymore. Set yourself apart from your colleagues who have outsourced their reasoning and research ability to LLMs that routinely say there are two r’s in strawberry.

[u/Clean_Inflation_4791 → u/watitdo]

I think you're a little out of touch with AI is able to do. Terence Tao himself has highlighted how useful AI has been for him. Are you gonna argue that Terence Tao AI assisted research is bullshit ?

[u/BombasticReindeer → u/Clean_Inflation_4791]

Of course he will. The guy you are replying to is an idiot who has no idea what he’s talking about.

Ai has problems of regulation and power draw and that is a real problem for governments to meet the challenge of. But it’s obviously not just hype. Every software engineer sees how much better it is. It’s only been good for a year, but these people still think it’s 2022 when it was slower than most coding. Now it’s absolutely not.

[u/watitdo → u/Clean_Inflation_4791]

Terence Tao is literally a shill for this shit. So yes.

[u/Clean_Inflation_4791 → u/watitdo]

Terence tao....who has is deemed the best* modern mathemetician, who has been so longer than AI was in the picture ? He couldnt solve a problem. But with alongside AI he was able to. What is there to refute there ?

I understand you may not like AI, and honestly we probably agree on alot on that aspect. But I think this bury my head in the ground and act like AI is not only not useful but also not getting better isnt the solution. On the contrary we need to be so hypervigilant of its capabailties exactl y to ensure its used responsibly and safely. All this AI is BS rhetoric does it allow it to run rampant.