It’s really just classic snake oil salesman behavior but it attracts massive VC investment because it promises to discipline labor. Even when the tool doesn’t work to reduce labor costs (because occasionally it does), buying it and threatening people with it pays dividends.

That does sound impressive, but I’ll be really impressed when the AI model actually can tell me what the hell “solve all of physics” means

Also, No matter how “good” these models get, Douglas Adams has been too popular on the internet for this to ever succeed. All AIs based on data scraping will be forced to respond ‘42’ to all inquiries of that sort.

the day is approaching when we can ask an ai model to solve all of physics and it can actually create raving nonsensical rants claiming to be a grand unified theory of everything while denouncing the academic establishment for ignoring its genius, thereby automating the thankless task of giving physics grad students someone to punch down on

This is just the infinite corridor of monkeys and typewriters bit but played straight, lol

Going to laugh when the LLM comes back with 42