Not all “tech bros” are brainless idiots who like to suck billionaries balls. I’m a fierce advocate of Free Software (as in freedom) , AI hater, I have class consciousness and I’m aware of all the contradictions of capitalism. Contradictory or not I live in Germany
real “my dad works at GameCube” energy
Technically he said that AI could understand all of physics which is a slightly different thing. Still silly as practically that just means “AI gonna do better physics modeling” which is more an incremental improvement on current systems than reinventing the wheel.
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.