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AI Discovers New Material That Could Slash Lithium Use In Batteries::Great job, AI! Please don’t kill us.

  • NateNate60@lemmy.worldEnglish
    89·
    9 months ago

    AI Intelligent Humans Who Programmed a Computer Discover New Material That Could Slash Lithium Use in Batteries

    It’s not like they told an AI “Go find a cool new battery material”. This was a targeted, human-led endeavour that used the same computational techniques that scientists have been using for decades. This headline is like saying “Hammer Builds New House”. It wasn’t the hammer. The hammer isn’t intelligent enough to do anything. Intelligent humans merely used it as a tool.

    • Excrubulent@slrpnk.netEnglish
      7·
      9 months ago

      The question is, was this comment downvoted by the rubes who love Elon, or the rubes who love AI?

      Trick question, they’re the same rubes!

      • SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        9 months ago

        Like that Optimus robot from Tesla folding laundry, powered by all the new AI neural networks. Turns out it was remote controlled by someone mostly off camera.

  • Tehhund@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    9 months ago

    We call this a “load-bearing could.” Or, “could is doing a lot of work in that sentence.” I mean, sure, it could, in the same sense that angry ticks could fire out of my nipples.

    When AI starts telling us how to efficiently manufacture these new materials, now that would be revolutionary.