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"You can see the future first in San Francisco." OpenAI alumnus Leopold Aschenbrenner pours out a worshipful paean to the AI future, just as if GPT wasn't topping out its S-curve (situational-awareness.ai)

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[–] gerikson@awful.systems 14 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Arrives like a wet turd hitting the bottom of the bowl at HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40576324

there are some promptfondlers trying valiantly to defend it but most correctly identify the author as a kid who doesn't know shit.

[–] gnomicutterance@awful.systems 20 points 5 months ago

Some scientific breakthroughs were memes at first

name one.

[–] mii@awful.systems 16 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I'm reading Feynman's lectures on electromagnetism right now, and GPT-4o can answer questions and help me with the math. I doubt that even a smart high school would be able to do it.

Ten bucks this guy hasn’t double-checked anything his chatbot told him but accepted it as truth because it used big words in grammatically coherent ways.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 12 points 5 months ago

Electromagnetism is a standard subject covered in a bajillion books, so the training set is probably full of repeated explanations of the basic examples. That sounds like an excellent recipe for "AI" bilge-water that is just coherent enough for a student to miss where it goes wrong.

[–] mountainriver@awful.systems 11 points 5 months ago

And here I thought it was easy to find high schoolers that are both wrong and sure of themselves.