Top physicist says chatbots are just ‘glorified tape recorders’::Leading theoretical physicist Michio Kaku predicts quantum computers are far more important for solving mankind’s problems.

  • spiritedpause@lemmy-u6723.vm.elestio.app
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    1 year ago

    What’s a physicist going to know about machine learning and AI?

    Is the logic really “he has a smart sounding job therefore he knows stuff about other smart sounding things”?

    Idiotic headline written by slimey journalists to cater to knuckledraggers.

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      1 year ago

      They could know quite a lot, ML is still a rather shallow field compared to the more established sciences, it’s arguably not even a proper science yet, perhaps closer to alchemy than chemistry. Max Tegmark is a cosmologist and he has learned it well enough for his opinion to count, this guy on the other hand is famous for his bad takes and has apparently gotten a lot wrong about QC even though he wrote a whole book about it.