Today, I realized another risk of AI that I hadn't considered before, namely as a Dunning-Kruger amplifier.
At the institute, I regularly have contact with people (*) who think they have refuted the theory of relativity or solved other big physical problems.
Usually, these “solutions” are simply meaningless sentences that sound like physics, but are not physics.
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(*) So far only men.
#AI #DunningKruger #physics #relativity #LLM
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