This is so dumb that it makes my head hurt.

The metaphor is apt, but the conclusion is, while imaginative, ridiculous.

What we currently refer to as “AI,” as the author correctly notes, is nothing more than a next-word-predictor, or, if you’re wild, a projection of an infinite-dimensional sliding space onto a totally arbitrary, nonlinear approximation. It could be exactly correct and perfect in every way, but it’s not.

This tool will never be an accountant. This tool should never write production code. This tool is actually quite useful for exploring purely-understood problem spaces in materials science.

It’s also good for generating plausible-sounding nonsense that is only sometimes reliable enough to avoid writing emails to your wife.

No thank you from me. I think I’ll continue participating in my own life, rather than automating away the trivially simple parts that make life worth living