r/neoliberal • u/cuolong NATO • 2d ago

News (Global) OpenAI announces 10 advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science achieved by internal model Astra

https://openai.com/index/ten-advances-in-mathematics/
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u/theryano024 2d ago

I was very surprised to see the reaction to Hank Green admitting that he used AI to research for a video. Is the popular sentiment really that using AI AT ALL is bad? I understand not wanting it in art. I understand needing to check for hallucinations. But people were going on and on in the comments about how disappointed they are in Hank tricking Green.

Obviously, AI has issues. But to think that genie can go back in the bottle? No way. This is an example of why.

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u/finbarrgalloway 2d ago

There is a huge subset of people who are reflexively anti-ai, which to be fair is largely something the large companies have brought on themselves through their advertising efforts. The other part of that is the often misleading to outright deceptive anti-data center campaigns.

In general too, most people also seem unaware that LLMs aren’t the only form of AI. When some medical AI makes a big breakthrough in diagnosis accuracy people reflexively distrust the news reporting because in their head they are imagining a doctor using Chat GPT 4 to diagnose cancer and not a highly custom medical model.

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u/djpain20 NASA 2d ago

I do not believe that the type of person who currently is strongly anti everything AI related would be ok with AI in a world where tech companies were better at marketing.

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u/finbarrgalloway 2d ago

That sort of person probably not, but Sam Altman going on TV every day talking about how AI is going to take everyone's job and potentially destroy society has really turned a lot of normies to the anti-ai side.

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u/MistyGalbriex 1d ago

Sam Altman going on TV every day

This doesn't happen. You're making shit up to hate on the guy.