I’ve gone down a rabbit hole here.

I’ve been looking at lk99, the potential room temp superconductor, lately. Then I came across an AI chat and decided to test it. I then asked it to propose a room temp superconductor and it suggested (NdBaCaCuO)_7(SrCuO_2)_2 and a means of production which got me thinking. It’s just a system for looking at patterns and answering the question. I’m not saying this has made anything new, but it seems to me eventually a chat AI would be able to suggest a new material fairly easily.

Has AI actually discovered or invented anything outside of it’s own computer industry and how close are we to it doing stuff humans haven’t done before?

  • Maharashtra@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Yes. They can write code.

    You don’t seem to understand me, or are trying very hard to not understand me.

    I’ll try again, but if it fails, I’ll assume it’s “bring horse to the water” case.

    So: can AIs write their own code? As in “rewrite the code that is them”? Not write some small pieces of code, a small app, but can their write THEIR OWN code, the one that makes them run?

    And my point is that neural networks don’t require understanding of whatever they’re trained on.

    Your point does not address my argument.

    You can’t compare a thing to a thing you neither understand nor can predict its capabilities.