this post was submitted on 03 Nov 2026
482 points (95.6% liked)
Technology
89619 readers
4673 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related news or articles.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Wake me up when their AI can propose and conduct novel scientific experiments.
Maths is an “easy” target for AI because it’s self contained. It’s easier to brute force training data in mathematics when there’s no external forces.
Can’t have that cheat code in science, unless they let their models study the behavior of real ant colonies as part of their reinforcement learning process.
Anti-intellectuals out themselves. Altman is one.
Science isn't about the answer. Its about the process. Anti-intellectuals vehemently argue until they are blue in the face that the end result is all that matters.
Anti-intellectuals think science is like in the movies: write gibberish on a chalkboard and time travel is suddenly invented. “Who needs experiments? My equation is correct!”
Too bad that movie is The Fly.
You know, that's actually one of the very few types of use case where I'd be ok with the massive resource consumption of AI data centers. Just feed enormous volumes of raw sensor data into model training and see if it comes up with patterns and connections that we didn't notice.
We do use AI to do it. A lot, actually. And the AI hardware boom has been amazing to all sorts of large dataset studies.
But once we find a pattern, we have to find why the pattern exists.