Today’s hot story is the latest executive order from the Trump Administration: “Launching the Genesis Mission.” The plan is to fabricate science with chatbots. [White House] The order just says AI,…
  • lagrangeinterpolatorEnglish
    15·
    6 个月前

    We will secure energy dominance by dumping even more money and resources into a technology that is already straining our power grid. But don’t worry. The LLM will figure it all out by reciting the Wikipedia page for Fusion Power.

    AI is expected to make cutting-edge simulations run “10,000 to 100,000 times faster.”

    Turns out it’s not good to assume that literally every word that comes out of a tech billionaire’s mouth is true. Now everyone else thinks they can get away with just rattling off numbers where their source is they made it the fuck up. I still remember Elon Musk saying a decade ago that he could make rockets 1,000 times cheaper, and so many people just thought it was going to happen.

    We need scientists and engineers. We do not need Silicon Valley billionaire visionary innovator genius whizzes with big ideas who are pushing the frontiers of physics with ChatGPT.

    • David GerardOPMAEnglish
      5·
      6 个月前

      “10,000 to 100,000 times faster.”

      You know they meant they’d ask a chatbot

      • lagrangeinterpolatorEnglish
        6·
        6 个月前

        True, it is possible to achieve 100,000x speedups if you dispose of the silly restriction of being correct.

    • o7___o7English
      5·
      6 个月前

      The anthropomorphic personification of magnetohydrodynamics materializes from the ether to laugh in their faces

    • IronBird@lemmy.worldEnglish
      22·
      6 个月前

      tbf, when your “normal” rocket construction process involves mass national ratfuckery as inefficient as it was/is…1000x cheaper is actually pretty doable.