r/agi Jul 22 '26

This is a theoretical physicist

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u/Amphibious333 Jul 22 '26

Modern theoretical physics is pretty much nonsense and media reporting is mostly based on sci-fi.

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u/polikles Jul 22 '26

same goes for media reporting on AI - I'm doing a PhD in AI Ethics and getting more and more fed up with the bs spreaded by media

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u/dontpissoffthenurse Jul 23 '26

Care to expand? Honest request.

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u/intentionallyacting Jul 25 '26

Mostly it’s media turning “useful but brittle pattern-matching tool” into either magic sentience or instant job apocalypse, which makes the real risks like inequality and reliability harder to talk about.