| ▲ | epistasis 4 days ago |
| The past year has been utter chaos, madness, and sadness for STEM in the US. I hope that Tao's grad students don't suffer from this too much in the immediate term. In the long term, all science is being harmed greatly, and we are causing a gigantic bubble in the pipeline of the production of scientists, most severely damaging those who are graduating soon. |
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| ▲ | SirFatty 4 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| It's been 6 months.... |
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| ▲ | dandanua 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| It's ok, USA doesn't need mathematicians after the AGI is built. If you need to compute something just ask AGI. The subscription, of course, will cost you multiple lifetimes' worth of the minimum working wage (luckily you could take a credit that will be payed off by multiple generations of your descendants), but you know, the progress can't be stopped! |
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| ▲ | yadiyadiyadi 4 days ago | parent [-] | | You know... yesterday, I asked Google if Arnold Schwarzenegger was the tallest Mr Olympia of all time at 6'2.
Their AI assistant told me that, no, he was not the tallest as there were several Mr Olympias who were taller at 5'5, 5'6 and 5'7.
Just now?
"No, Arnold Schwarzenegger is not the tallest Mr. Olympia. While he is a well-known and successful bodybuilder, his height is 6'2" (1.88m), which is not the tallest among Mr. Olympia winners. The tallest Mr. Olympia is likely Ronnie Coleman, who is 5'11" (1.80m)." I'm really not too concerned about being replaced in the next couple months at least. | | |
| ▲ | pklausler 4 days ago | parent | next [-] | | The physician's assistant recorded my height last week as 5'13". I'm worried now about "I" in general, not just "AI". | | |
| ▲ | fuzzfactor 4 days ago | parent [-] | | Maybe that would be more like "NI", for Natural Intelligence. That's not very accurate terminology every time either, more like "lack of NI" ;) I've been worried about that for a while before AI came up on the radar :) |
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| ▲ | maleldil 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Are you talking about Google Search's AI summary? I don't know what model they use for that, but I tested Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite (the smallest of Google's current models), and it got the answer right. |
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| ▲ | fuzzfactor 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| >most severely damaging those who are graduating soon. When Nixon was getting ready for his recession it was pretty bad too. |
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| ▲ | nyeah 4 days ago | parent | next [-] | | It was not like this. Nixon was not dismantling science and engineering. | | |
| ▲ | fuzzfactor 4 days ago | parent | next [-] | | >dismantling science and engineering. Not directly, I admit that was just collateral damage. About like these NSF grants are situated within the big picture. | |
| ▲ | gddgb 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | [dead] |
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| ▲ | insane_dreamer 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Nixon is starting to look like a saint these days |
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| ▲ | Paul-Craft 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| > The past year has been utter chaos, madness, and sadness for the US. FTFY. |
