Comment on AI comes up with battery design that uses 70 per cent less lithium

• snooggums@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  At the core, weather models, web searches, and AI are all pattern recognition with various levels of complexity and scope. Just like a bicycle is comparable to a motorcycle because they both have two wheels even though one is powered and can go faster and for longer without wearing out the rider.

  By this very same logic, nobody has ever discovered anything because they’re just speeding someone else’s plans of improving or deriving from someone else’s findings

  AI is not a person capable of coming up with something on its own.

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  • stevedidWHAT@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I never claimed that, humans discoveries are just new permutations of observed phenomena. Every single mechanism of the universe is a permutation of the baseline functionality: physics. Therefore, if we’re shitting on permutations, you’re shitting on all of science. AI can do what we do faster. It’s just applied “knowledge” - no different than humans. In fact, that’s the whole point of neural networks, to emulate what our brains literally do right now.

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