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Billionaires Convince Themselves AI Chatbots Are Close to Making New Scientific Discoveries (gizmodo.com)

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Vibe-physics sounds like something you do just before you flunk out of a STEM program.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 days ago (1 children)

One trillion. That's the amount of money that has been invested in AI.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Nah. 80% of it went to billionaires pockets, the rest of it buying power plants, funding ChatGPT wrappers, maybe less than 1% goes to researchers.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago

https://www.goldmansachs.com/insights/articles/will-the-1-trillion-of-generative-ai-investment-pay-off

Also, the article is a year old. It's VC investments mostly. So billionaires are fleecing billionaires.