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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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[–] deranger@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

I use some image generation tools and LLMs.

I think it's a safe bet to estimate it will work out to be somewhere in the middle of the two extremes. I don't think AI/ML is going to be worthless, but I also don't think it's going to do all these terrible things people are afraid of. It will find its applications and be another tool we have.