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Sam Altman Crows That AI Is Now Smarter Than the Brightest Human Scientists: Sure, Sam. (futurism.com)
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[–] IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

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.

[–] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

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.