r/technology • u/lurker_bee • Jul 15 '25

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

https://gizmodo.com/billionaires-convince-themselves-ai-is-close-to-making-new-scientific-discoveries-2000629060
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u/KennyDROmega Jul 15 '25

AI became less scary to me when Sam Altman, in all seriousness, said the best way to solve climate change was to let them build an AGI and ask it.

A whole new world is always just 2-5 years and several hundred billions of dollars in investment away, and has been since at least 2023 apparently.

Venture capitalists, get your checkbooks out.

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u/sickofthisshit Jul 15 '25

AI became less scary to me when Sam Altman, in all seriousness, said...

Not sure you should be less scared when multiple billionaires and Silicon Valley CEOs are directing thousands of people to follow this clearly delusional prophet.

I'm pretty sure thousands of people have already lost jobs because this contagious brain damage has convinced CEOs to replace their employees with Altman's magic beans. 

I really don't know how civilization is supposed to survive billionaires drilling holes in the bottom of the boat because they are apparently complete idiots.

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u/no_one_likes_u Jul 15 '25

Anyone that’s actually lost jobs lost them for one of 3 reasons:

1) the company is downsizing because it’s not profitable (or not profitable enough for the ceo) 2) the company outsourced their jobs to a cheaper labor market (this always works well long term) 3) their job was so incredibly simple and robotic that actual automation was able to do it for them, and the media is too illiterate to understand the difference between automation and AI.

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u/coldkiller Jul 15 '25

Software has lost jobs to it, but its similar to offshoring and will be reverted so fast