[vba616]

I think you've got hold of the wrong end of your analogy.

If you just hold it the right way you will be illuminated and we will all agree how relevant it is.

If someone announces to the public, they have a revolutionary new motor that is going to transform personal transportation and solve climate change...

...but it is presented with a chat interface - the motor itself is directed through typing text and it demonstrates its motion/power through text messages in response - rather being connected to a vehicle or generator, rather than a transmission, then it's BS beyond a reasonable doubt.

Even though there is no logical or technical reason preventing such a setup, it's just not how professionals do things. If the motor were so damn useful, then people who like to use motors would use it for the things that they do use motors for!

There is no logical or legal requirement in science to use LaTeX Computer Modern fonts...but as a layperson if I can't tell if someone is a crank or doing advanced physics, I'm going to be exponentially more skeptical if they are using Times or Palatino.

[travisjungroth]

Judging them for having a chat interface is the exact type of thing that I think is unintelligent. It would be like… judging an extremely popular paper for their choice of font. We’re past that.

[vba616]

Who is past it? Is AI past it? "It" = processing the world in terms of correlations?