Artificial intelligence still has some way to go

B-but its going to solve physics.

Sam Altman says the day is approaching when we can ask an AI model to solve all of physics and it can actually do that pic.twitter.com/zExwozzlhY

— Tsarathustra (@tsarnick) June 26, 2024

Aside from the fact that no it isn't going to solve all of physics, there's an extraordinary rhetorical sleight of hand in there. What is the future going to look like "even if we solve every safety / misuse / regulatory problem"? No! What is the world going to look like if we *don't* do that (because we can't and won't!)

All it can do is summarize physics textbooks.

Wow... Just tested the new keyframe update from Luma. 🤯 pic.twitter.com/TIIQQ9gyVz

— Proper (@ProperPrompter) June 28, 2024

lock thread?

Gift article about the collapse of a company that failed to design an AI chatbot for the LA school system. A telling portion intimates that the company’s founder kept referring to work she had done with a lab at Harvard… but which was actually a brief association as an undergraduate and then extension student. AI is just big grift afaic

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/01/us/ai-chatbot-los-angeles-schools.html?unlocked_article_code=1.300.J-uf.4ZtU36zvm3Zr&smid=url-share