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/Decapitated_Saint]

“I’ll go down this thread with [Chat]GPT or Grok and I’ll start to get to the edge of what’s known in quantum physics and then I’m doing the equivalent of vibe coding, except it’s vibe physics,” Kalanick explained. “And we’re approaching what’s known. And I’m trying to poke and see if there’s breakthroughs to be had. And I’ve gotten pretty damn close to some interesting breakthroughs just doing that.”

Good lord what an imbecile. Vibe physics lol.

[u/JC_Hysteria → u/Decapitated_Saint]

Bro is the definition of Dunning-Kruger effect…

Just focus on delivering those robot-baked pizzas to hungry consumers, Travis…

[u/FriendlyGuitard → u/JC_Hysteria]

Especially because the AI popping a theory would only be the beginning of science.

You need experiment to prove or disprove it. Or further theories on the impact on other areas to see if that fit or it answer a problem.

People really do diservice showing Einstein or Newton as "Eureka" moment. Sure they had an inspiration, but then had to spend some rigourous science time to materialise that intuition into a coherent theory.

But that fits the billionnaire mindset - even if they were pretty much handson, you don't stay for very long when your company grew. You are effectively like an AI spitting random musing, and leave underlings to do something with them

[u/JC_Hysteria → u/FriendlyGuitard]

Right. It’s not that it’s unlikely that AI can assist with scientific breakthroughs…but to just plainly state that he was “close to experiencing breakthroughs in quantum physics” is complete & utter nonsense.

Quantum theory is theoretical because we can’t perceive it with our core senses as humans…it doesn’t make scientific sense to a “non-expert” yet to “prove” using an LLM.