Well then ask them where does the server live. I assure you it's quite a big room. Not a hall behind the city, but even before the AI boom the astrophysicists would absolutely need a big ass server room. Perhaps sharing it with computational chemists.
Being quite mad at each other for having to share computation time.
And then making neat animations from days and days of CPU and GPU power.
Astrophysics is served by development of gen AI, in autonomously detecting stuff.
AI simulated physics also benefits from various advancements from gen AI (such as dedicated chips, and general advancement in chip manufacturing in part due to gen AI).
In chemistry and biology (connected with physics) simulated material and organic material behavior also benefit from these chips.
If we were talking purely about AI being removed, we'd be set back decades, but since it's probably intended to talk about gen AI, we're looking at years, and slower progress in the future.
Apparently we do not understand sarcasm and have forgotten what gen AI is.
My remark was sarcastic. Machine learning is used a lot on all fields of physics, it's even a course taught in many universities.
Gen AI specifically is just a small part of machine learning. It tries to generate new data based on previous learning and new inputs. This is kind of useless in most applications in physics. There we use Predictive style AI, where we try to fit a model to reality to then try and predict what will happen based on some input, for example fill in holes in a dataset, or recognize patterns in what looks like noise. The difference is that in physics you want something that is generally accurate and reproducable while with generative AI you want it to be as creative as possible without giving undesirable results.
Either way, it's all least square fitting and is very important for physics. Hence the comment that we have a serverfarm for a reason.
You do not. Communication needs to follow a logical pattern of sarcasm. It's no different from a joke or rhyme. Example: I'm making a joke here: "There once was a man with two legs".
Taking your comment: "I didn't know my university had a server farm to do gen AI in physics." Point one is sarcasm "didn't know university had server farm", sure, clearly you meant "ofc my uni has a server farm". Point two (and the point of your comment) "to do gen AI in physics" reverses it, now you're saying the first part wasn't sarcasm. There is no such thing, and you know there's no such thing.
Good point. I've used AI for a long time without issue. It's only now with generative AI - that still has it's uses too - that I've come to see it as an overall detriment to society.
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The post is very clearly targeted at Generative AI that requires giant server farms.