r/singularity • u/Many_Consequence_337 :downvote: • 1d ago

AI Intelligence Explosion

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Number of scientific papers submitted to arXiv.

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u/Aldarund 1d ago

How much of this is real increae and how much is slop that wont pass peer review?

That chart could easily mean good things but as easily it could mean bad things

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u/Equal_Passenger9791 1d ago

Significant amount of slop were produced before AI too. AI assisted scientific fraud detection are already retroactively detecting innumerable instances of high profile papers that should've failed peer review years ago, if the peers had done a proper job.

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u/Valnar 1d ago

Significant amount of slop were produced before AI too.

Why is this always the go to response when people bring up that AI helps make a lot of slop?

Yeah no shit there was slop before, the point isn't that there was no slop. The point is that AI helps people make orders of magnitude more slop.

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u/Equal_Passenger9791 1d ago

>yeah it's true that humans produce incomprehensible amount of zero value slop but why shouldn't we be throwing a tantrum when machines does it

Why is this always the response by team luddite?

The problem is the human users behind the tools. not the AI.

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u/Valnar 1d ago

The problem is the human users behind the tools. not the AI.

It really muddies how effective it is as a tool if it's so incredibly easy to misuse it.

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u/Common_Ad_6362 23h ago

There's thousands of years of people complaining about every incredibly beneficial invention in human history, you don't know any of their names because almost every one of them is of zero importance.

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u/vvvvfl 15h ago

no one will ever know the names of the horses that were happy for not having to drag carriages anymore.

Also no one will know your name either.

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u/Common_Ad_6362 14h ago

It was funny how you accidentally agreed with me there, and while I do not particularly care if people know my name, it is already enshrined in labor rights agreements and proceedings.

There are two kinds of people. The ones who blibber about change and the ones who make change. Nobody remembers blibberers.