Like many scientists, theoretical physicist Andrew Strominger was unimpressed with early attempts at probing ChatGPT, receiving clever-sounding answers that didn't stand up to scrutiny. So he was skeptical when a talented former graduate student paused a promising academic career to take a job with OpenAI. Strominger told him physics needed him more than Silicon Valley.
  • knokelmaat@beehaw.org
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    1 hour ago

    Absolutely not. It’s a tool that they used successfully, and they can put it in their method or whatever, but it’s not a person. We never describe other scientific applications as authors, even though they are often essential to reaching a goal or understanding. Think about all those proofs using computer based exhaustion methods and the like. I think people are confused because an LLM interacts so human like. But it is still quite a logical statistical algorithm, as long as we don’t go towards genuine general intelligence with reasoning capabilities and an own identity / “soul”, it is absurd to act like it’s a person. And the situation of a truly conscious and independent AI is still very far off, if it’s even possible at all, in my opinion.