• CosmoNova@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Technically machines make most discoveries possible these days but I have yet to see an electric microscope receive the prize. I don‘t see how this is any different.

  • Buffalox@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    “eventually” is a cheap cop out. Because I have no doubt AI will eventually surpass us, it’s simply the nature of the speed of development of technology over evolution. But we are not there yet.

  • earthworm@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    “It’s almost certain” that AI will reach that level eventually, one researcher told Nature.

    Semafor doing so much work trying the launder this into a story. “One scientist” in the original article, to multiple scientists in their headline.

    This is the first of three waves of AI in science, says Sam Rodriques, chief executive of FutureHouse — a research lab in San Francisco, California, that debuted an LLM designed to do chemistry tasks earlier this year.

    And the one “scientist” seems to have switched tracks from doing actual research to doing capitalism.

  • phdepressed@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    Eventually we’ll make agi instead of this llm bullshit. Assuming we don’t destroy ourselves first.