Comment by dyauspitr
4 days ago
That’s what standing on the shoulders of giants refers to. This is how science has always worked. The generated papers have attributions and citations just like if a human wrote them.
4 days ago
That’s what standing on the shoulders of giants refers to. This is how science has always worked. The generated papers have attributions and citations just like if a human wrote them.
>That’s what standing on the shoulders of giants refers to. This is how science has always worked.
Yes, but automating and commercializing a process makes it inherently different. Just because everyone has always been welcome to drink from the village well, that countless generations have worked tirelessly to dig, maintain, and improve, doesn't mean that there's no basis for complaint when Nestle sticks a pump down it and starts draining the aquifer to bottle and sell.
The lack of an existing law (or custom) against new behavior doesn't actually render it necessarily non-grotesque.
This analogy doesn’t work. A more apt analogy is Nestle putting a pump down in the well and sucking out industrial quantities of water but simultaneously digging more wells as well. The “more wells” is more avenues for further research building on what it has proved/found.
Going with the same analogy, sucking out industrial quantities of water causes existing wells to dry up because they are not deep enough. Then Nestle starts selling water to the village who now can't get water.
Nestle can pump out infinite amount of water from their many wells, much more than before, which is great, but Nestle also become the sole water supply and unregulated. Obviously, people cannot go without water, so they are at the whims of Nestle. Now, is this a good thing?
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But Nestle’s pump not only doesn’t deplete the well, it’s adding to it!
No, it's able to reach deeper and pump more out than ever before, democratizing access to the water from the well, at the minor cost of the people of the village no longer having a well. But they're welcome to buy plastic bottles of their own water along with everyone else.
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Is this actually how water pumping works, or are we extending the metaphor to imply that the AI is creating knowledge? Because I would dispute the latter if the effect is that the number of people with a deep understanding of a subject declines.
The giants are quite often credited by name, or have their work cited.
Or are revered teachers that you'll never forget.
Pretty sure AI is more akin to standing on the shoulders of giants and peeing into the wind
Take a philosophy class or read more books. Your response is devoid of humanity and philosophical introspection.
> That’s what standing on the shoulders of giants refers to. This is how science has always worked
OpenAI's Navier-Stokes finding is closer to Crick and Watson in respect of Franklin's research than conventional science.