It would be super cool if the tech media would simply stop credulously repeating every value-juicing statement C-Suites make like they’re the in-house PR department. The only difference between these hollow promises and the guy crying, “The end is near!” on the street corner is funding.
Like she’s blatantly full of shit. No one will follow-up on this. The models have already absorbed every publicly available dissertation ever written so what’s stopping it from being this “smart” now? And it still doesn’t address the “hallucination” problem. It’s a nonsense statement.
Very many things in published STEM papers are incorrect or even fabricated; it still takes discernment to evaluate a paper. Context, reputation of the authors/institution/journal, the appropriateness of the methods used to reach a conclusion… “vacuum everything up” will never work.
Some what horrifyingly the AI tools built in to photoshop make it trivial to fabricate undetectable false scientific data, such as pictures of gels from biochem experiments. China recently made it a criminal offence to fabricate scientific papers, with a max penalty of death.
