You may not realize that AI evangelism is not only in the scientific community. Articles like this, claiming AI is doing something amazing, something that humans have been unable to do, is propaganda.
Peer review is great. The average reader of that article is assuming the peer review is complete by the time they read it. Even if that isn’t true. The takeaway for them is not “this annotation was likely made by a German scribe at XYZ date” the point of the article is that “Gemini figured out something that stumped human researchers”.
And I refute the original position: the notes are not inscrutable and I doubt a human has never translated the numerals or analyzed the script to guess age. It just wasn’t important enough to write an article until it made AI look good.
The article is propaganda. It’s neat, but if you read it as “look at this cool thing llms can do…” Then you fell for it.
The fact of the matter is that this is a perfect example of LLM actually doing something useful and helping researchers figure things out. I also love how you’re now playing an expert on deciphering ancient scripts. You should go let the researchers know asap what a bunch of dummies they are for not being able to figure it out on their own.
Maybe find a new hobby other than sealioning into threads to screech about how much you hate LLMs. It’s frankly tiring of watching people perseverate over it.
You may not realize that AI evangelism is not only in the scientific community. Articles like this, claiming AI is doing something amazing, something that humans have been unable to do, is propaganda.
Peer review is great. The average reader of that article is assuming the peer review is complete by the time they read it. Even if that isn’t true. The takeaway for them is not “this annotation was likely made by a German scribe at XYZ date” the point of the article is that “Gemini figured out something that stumped human researchers”.
And I refute the original position: the notes are not inscrutable and I doubt a human has never translated the numerals or analyzed the script to guess age. It just wasn’t important enough to write an article until it made AI look good.
The article is propaganda. It’s neat, but if you read it as “look at this cool thing llms can do…” Then you fell for it.
The fact of the matter is that this is a perfect example of LLM actually doing something useful and helping researchers figure things out. I also love how you’re now playing an expert on deciphering ancient scripts. You should go let the researchers know asap what a bunch of dummies they are for not being able to figure it out on their own.
Maybe find a new hobby other than sealioning into threads to screech about how much you hate LLMs. It’s frankly tiring of watching people perseverate over it.