10-12-2025, 03:00 PM
(10-12-2025, 02:24 PM)gaugamela wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.That seems like a gross misrepresentation of the current state of the technology.
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AI isn't a magic wand that can make sense of anything you throw at it, in fact it technically can't make meaning of things at all. I agree, it basically works like a large predictive search engine, trawling its database.
But this is exactly what @Jorge_Stolfi said, I think.
Modern AIs are fed truckloads of information when training, which includes discussions on all kinds of topics in many languages. It's highly likely that the AI has seen "usable and very accurate solutions for diffusion and convection problems" that you mention and readily reproduced or combined them. But when AI combines two things together it probably does this is a way that ensures a statistically seamless textual transition from A to B, which may or may not coincide with the right way of combining A and B. The result is not guaranteed to work, but it is guaranteed to look very plausible. And while in jobs like software engineering with proper TDD this is not a huge problem, wrong solutions get rejected very quickly, I would say AIs are of very limited use in other areas where verifying a solution is not much easier than producing it.