https://www.instructables.com/How-to-Build-a-Fusion-Reactor-... https://makezine.com/projects/nuclear-fusor/ https://fusor.net/board/viewtopic.php?t=3247
The "artificially intelligent" aspect is trivial.
Reminds me of all these YouTubers making video essays parotting something they have just learned, without actually mastering the subject.
We don’t really do this because there’s no concept of ownership of food to that degree. Maybe 200 years ago, where a farmer may chew you out since he toiled the soil to get you that carrot.
So, for us to not be possessive of knowledge, we’d need to evolve. It’s not likely in our lifetime, but perhaps 500-1000 years down the line the social fabric will evolve to handle this, similar to food possession.
Or I could be wrong, and we just have a bunch of naturally thieving crooks all over the place.
For me a source means I can verify some claims, find another opinion/presentation, are able to view other work based on that source.
It is the difference between having links between web pages or having only independent web pages. I guess we can all agree there is value in having the information "X was based on Y".
The reason people do not credit can also be that they don't add any value. If the original source is more complete, more correct and better presented then they might "loose" their perceived value. Does this happen in all cases? Probably not. But it is my first instinct when I see it (happens a lot to "news" article as well for example, when talking about papers, university announcements, etc, things that could be easily "linked")
Cooking is not a great comparison, and it betrays your point more than anything. If you cook something particularly impressive or complex, people will almost universally ask about the recipe and where it came from.
Origination is actually a pretty common topic of discussion for many things.
If population cares about it enough companies adapt, even if 50km down the road in another country they sell lower quality with same name (EU generally is less strict re food quality, but both tower high above what US FDA permits).
Being generous to them, some of them do a good job of picking topics I wouldn't have thought to look up myself. They probably do spend a lot of time reading through diverse subjects looking for the interesting ones.
Why is using AI something to be ‘declared’?
And actually, I'm not sure the switch from one ubiquitous digital format to another lossier one is the big step change here....
HudZah is seemly using the AI as a search engine for the reference materials he collected for the project, which is a legit use of the technology.
So how would we feel if the headline for this (and many other articles) was:
X uses search engine to find data required to do Y?
See fusor.net.[1] It's unlikely this rig is doing any fusion. It's just a plasma created by high voltage, like a neon lamp. He's not putting in deuterium gas. He's not detecting neutrons. Most of the people who try to do this get the blue glow, but not neutrons.
The main hazard is then the high voltage.
These things are not energy producers. It takes about a billion times as much energy input as comes out in neutrons. They can be useful neutron sources for imaging and research.
We now have good evidence that AI-assisted learning can be substantially more effective than traditional methods, at incredibly low marginal cost.
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2024/09/professor-tai...
https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/education/From-chalkboards-to...
I respectfully disagree. I don't think it's wrong or useless to get an LLM to help, I recently did a similar project myself (even though I manually fact-checked all the high-voltage stuff).
If you find a guide that explains too much then you can skip the parts you know. If it doesn't explain something you don't know yet then you recursively look that stuff up. It doesn't matter if it's a book or a teacher or a search engine or an LLM.
It's just not good journalism here, because evidently this project has been done lots of times in similar circumstances without LLMs.
LLMs help organizing knowledge and research in a novel domain. The point is not “can you do it”. LLMs are great at giving vanilla standard answers. Which is exactly what you want when researching a novel domain. I’ve been dipping into novel domains for 25 years and LLM:s make it so much more pleasant.