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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)
submitted 2 years ago* by [M] to c/techtakes@awful.systems
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[–] 15 points 2 years ago (6 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.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Some scientific breakthroughs were memes at first

    name one.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years 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.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years 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.

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