Certainly the prophecies of the Oracle of Delphi are clearer and more reliable than the answers drawn from Grok’s hallucinations.
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Researching unobtanium via Grok?
Yeah, the next couple of Starships will keep exploding.
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What materials science that isn’t in any books or the internet Elno? What exactly?
Because it actually isn’t science if it isn’t there. Unless someone did the work but decided not to publish and just use it to train LLMs.
No. Me neither.
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No, this won’t happen. But humanity already is ceding its critical thinking skills to AI, and taking for gospel answers untethered to any reality.
This is what scares me most.
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Agreed. On top of that, the environmental impact of the growth of data centers, which was already a problem… and now tech-dude-bros want to solve that with a push for new nuclear power plants (or those smaller reactors, or whatever)… And of course, dis/mis-information… I wish more people were focused on the actual problems being caused, rather than some fake sci-fi “problem” that might never come to pass…
See, this is the kind of thing you get when you live in a society that continually shits on and guts non-scientific education for years. People unable to distinguish between problems as they actually exist and problems that are just, basically, made up. This is the outcome of pushing STEM to the forefront at the expense of literally everything else, people who are unable to think critically about the world as it exists and mistaking fiction for fact. 
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It’s really easy to do material science when you don’t have to make anything. Check it out – magnesium is light and lead is heavy, so if you mix them you might get a unique alloy that is both light and heavy at the same time. Is that stupid? If he doesn’t try it, I bet Elon won’t know!
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Ooohhh, magnesium. Now you’re talking!
Not just shrapnel, but burning shrapnel you can’t put out with water!
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True, but it’s ok, we can just throw in some asbestos as a flame retardant. Man, am I ever good at material science that’s not in books! Maybe Grok can start asking my opinions on it.
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Ed Zitron is on On the Media today!
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I’ve seen people on internet forums using things like Chat GPT to create posts that supposedly support their opinions or worse, using chatgpt to have opinions. The worst thing was seeing coworkers using chatgpt as legal or health consultancy.
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Google’s Gemini refuses to play Chess against the mighty Atari 2600 after realizing it can’t match ancient console
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I’m sure a whole lot could be said about this. I’m pondering this as someone who is not a subject matter expert.
I have read and heard about how office jobs can range from intense overwork to people who have nothing to do and try to look busy all day. There’s also the job culture of placing a lot of importance on seniority/age. Japan’s emphasis on doing things “right” even if that means doing it in a pain-in-the-ass way that could be done more efficiently in another way. And on a broader spectrum there’s the difficult job market and economy.
If one were to throw AI into the mix, and if i wanted to be generous and assume it works as intended, it could potentially make people’s jobs redundant or efficient i think this shake up might be seen as negatively disruptive to how Japan likes to do business. There’s also unions which might stop efforts to lay off a workforce that’s no longer needed.
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I remember when the recession hit the country and the working culture shifted, they had to lay off lot of people and it was unimaginable a few years earlier. Employment in Japan was a lifelong thing. You joined the company as a youngling and only left after retirement, and this involved extreme loyalty and intimacy with the corporation. I read that the shock was very strong, especially for baby boomers, who suffered greatly. I don’t know if this has any parallels with Western culture, both geographically and politically.
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You have to remember that he thinks he’s Tony Stark working with JARVIS.
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People are losing their damn minds.
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