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[–] Avicenna@programming.dev 8 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

These math breakthroughs happened by throwing tens of thousands of agents at a problem to cover all possible angles (with tools developed by other mathematicians) costing the same amount of money as hiring ten top tier mathematicians for several years. Not saying it is not impressive, but not "AI can replace sciencetists" level impressive.

[–] Reygle@lemmy.world 21 points 6 days ago

The more pants-on-head crazy the claims are, the more desperate they are.

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 16 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

I believe AI is smarter than Sam Altman.

Sam Altman believes he is smarter than scientists.

[–] humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

I asked AI if it’s smarter than scientists, and it said no. So if Sam says I should trust AI, Sam is full of shit.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

Sam, just because the digital parrot outsmarts you, it does not need to be intelligent.

[–] redwattlebird@thelemmy.club 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yawn. Wake me up when AI cures all cancers.

[–] FlembleFabber@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I would be curious to know what would happen in that case, life expectancy would skyrocket

[–] redwattlebird@thelemmy.club 1 points 2 days ago

Not really. There'd always be something else such as Alzheimer's etc.

[–] The_greatest_ahole9@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Just because AI is smarter than Sam Altman doesn't mean it’s smarter than top scientists. Especially considering Sam is just about as smart as a pile of horseshit.

[–] SomeRandomNoob@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I belive it as soon as they replace Scam Altman with AI as CEO and report postive growth and income for at last the next 10 Years.

[–] phlegmy@sh.itjust.works 7 points 6 days ago

But CEO's are much more smarterer than scientists!
If scientists are so smart, why don't they have any money?
Don't tell me they value something other than "number go up" because I won't understand you.

[–] CluelessCalls@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

Is that sister fucking Sam Altman?

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 7 points 6 days ago

Now we flipped the house and senate, I hope we get some common sense guard rails for AI.

[–] agent_nycto@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

If AI is so smart how come it can't figure out how to run without a shit tonne of water and generating all that noise?

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

yo Sam...give one single example where any scientist can solve anything without new data generated by experimentation done in a lab by people.

The idea that a "super intelligence" will cure diseases is a an ignorant view of drug discovery. AI is being trained on mostly experimental failures and mostly poor experimental design in poor model systems for human disease. You can only polish a turd so hard.

[–] mushroommunk@lemmy.today 4 points 6 days ago (2 children)

They legitimately, genuinely, 100% believe the AI can simulate everything and will use the to intelligently iterate solutions. There is zero reasoning with these lunatics

[–] luciferofastora@feddit.org 2 points 6 days ago

Even if AI could do that, the text processor they built can't

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 days ago

Sure, AI can solve any problem except how to make money from AI.

[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

AI spits out whatever it finds on the internet. I guess you could say that's smart if you're being obtuse about it...

[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 6 points 6 days ago

Yet I can ask it to do work that only a moderately smart human can do, like read, and it fucks that up so hard.

Is this how we find out Sam Altman is actually an illiterate dipshit?

[–] shirro@aussie.zone 3 points 6 days ago

But apparently not smarter than CEOs or these con artists would all fuck off.

[–] Leviathan@fedinsfw.app 3 points 6 days ago

I don't know, how is this any different than saying Wikipedia knows more than any human on earth? Ok, so you're computer program has a bunch of information, who cares?

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

They are, but at the same time they are not at all

[–] eicker@lemmy.world 207 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Funny how AI has supposedly surpassed the greatest scientists, yet the greatest scientific discovery here is always announced by the guy selling subscriptions. If it really is that smart, perhaps it could explain to Sam the difference between a peer reviewed breakthrough and a product launch.

[–] LewdLemon@sh.itjust.works 77 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

If it really is that smart, perhaps it could explain to Sam the difference between a peer reviewed breakthrough and a product launch.

911, I'd like to report a murder.

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[–] Flower@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

To be fair to AI, the problem with Sam and OpenAI was always PEBKAC.

[–] baldingpudenda@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm sorry, Sam. I can only explain it to you. I can't understand it for you, as well.

[–] generallynonsensical@piefed.ca 19 points 1 week ago (6 children)

You can lead a man to knowledge, but you can't make him think.

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[–] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 60 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

If it's so smart, maybe they should ask it to come up with a viable business strategy, because he sure as hell hasn't figured it out, lol.

[–] isles@infosec.pub 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

"We have no current plans to make revenue. We have no idea how we may one day generate revenue. We have made a soft promise to investors that once we've built this sort of generally intelligent system, basically we will ask it to figure out a way to generate an investment return for you." - Sam Altman

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[–] SW42@lemmy.world 50 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Please Sam, put the AI in charge of your company. Pretty please

[–] kadotux@sopuli.xyz 11 points 6 days ago

If he really believed what he said, he would. But he knows he's just talking shit

[–] bashibazouk@lemmy.world 37 points 1 week ago

Ya, Sam, call me when the AI knows what questions to ask that it came up with on its own rather than just scraping...

[–] tea_n_typewriters@lemmy.world 35 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I’ll believe it when I hear it from the brightest human scientists, not the glorified salesman who would ironically be perfectly replaced by AI.

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[–] f314@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Is it because he thinks he is the brightest human scientist, but it turns out he’s actually pretty stupid?

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Since they just lost a lot of millions last week, they need a new grift

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago (5 children)

AI is a deep learning algorithm used for information retrieval with dubious accuracy.

It doesn't think. It has no awareness or understanding. It's not intelligent. It certainly can't come up with something new or creative like an intelligent person can.

Something surprisingly few people get about AI is if it had any intelligence at all it would surpass us blindingly fast, no matter the starting point.

It's never going to be in the news that thinking machines got 23% smarter over the last month or three.

There's an old comic I wish I could locate that has people standing at a train platform awaiting superintelligence. Nothing happens, then someone staring down the track says I think I see- whoosh and it's already gone.

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[–] very_well_lost@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Sam Altman has been credibly accused of raping his sister.

...not going anywhere with this, just felt compelled to share.

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[–] DarkSurferZA@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So they just gonna fire all their AI engineers and replace them with AI now, right?

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[–] mcv@lemmy.zip 21 points 1 week ago

AI is not smarter than the best scientist. It's just smarter than Sam Altman. But that's partially because Sam Altman is regressing due to his over reliance on AI.

[–] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

It's the best monkey at the typewriter.

[–] jontree255@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

Ah, pulling an Elon, where you just say impressive sounding bullshit so people keep giving you money.

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