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Top physicist says chatbots are just ‘glorified tape recorders’ (fortune.com)
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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.

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[–] Chickenstalker@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nope. Biologists also use statistical models and also know where the data is coming from etc etc. They are not experts in AI. This Michio Kaku guy is more like the African American Science Guy to me, more concerned with being a celeb.

[–] JoBo 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Biologists are (often) excellent statisticians too, you're correct. That's why the most successful quants are biologists or physicists, despite not having trained in finance.

They're not experts in (the badly misnamed) AI. They're experts in the statistical models AI uses. They know an awful lot more than the likes of Sam Altman and the AI-hypers. Because they're trained specialists, not techbro grifters.