latchkeyAI for American-produced cement and concrete
> As a result, producers need a way to rapidly explore and validate new formulations without spending months in the lab.
How do you bypass the normal process of pouring test articles and testing them months and years after cure? This is fundamentally a research activity that needs to conduct verifiable science. Not something you can guess at with an LLM.
Somebody needs to coin a new term for the scattershot zero-thought AI griping that is pervasive in online comments these days. Meatslop?
Obviously it's going to be more productive for a manufacturer to do a years-long curing test on 100 likely candidates instead of 100 random mixes. They obviously already screen candidates through traditional methods, but if this AI technique improves accuracy, all the better.
I call it pseudo-critique — active stupidity in the name of critical thinking — but that’s too general.
hn discourse is not nearly as high-quality as people would like to believe.
It’s very bimodal.
just like everywhere else? reddit has fairly good wheat among the chaff just the same?
The current strategy of the AI hype machine is to exhaust people's reserves of attention by presenting a never-ending stream of hard-to-verify "positive" claims. It's Gish Gallop done on the Internet scale with a never-ending parade of both tech influencers and low-value accounts. The while strategy aims for saturation and demoralized acceptance.
It's no surprise that people readjust their reactions by expressing hostility and skepticism about anything AI-related without spending much time on analysis. In fact, it's an entirely rational reaction.
Complaining about this without acknowledging the larger context is disingenuous.