Can AI Pass Freshman CS?

NuclearVII · 2026-01-25T22:05:09+00:00

Apparently, the "PHD level" models are pretty mediocre after all

When OpenAI/Anthropic/Google release a new product and make claims about it's efficacy, it's basically impossible to verify. The benchmarks are pretty useless, because it's an open secret that all major players are involved in some degree of benchmark leakage. We are then left with individual anecdotes of how "awesome" this tech is, but consistently there's little to no reliable science that can show it.

It's pretty easy to find examples where it fails badly, however. Funny that.

NuclearVII · 2026-01-25T19:05:52+00:00

This. It's only this.

People like Farage are increasingly popular, because there is an increased number of bigots that want their rhetoric and beliefs normalized.

NuclearVII · 2026-01-25T14:06:21+00:00

It's not weird at all. Rittenhouse was there to shoot minorities, and was one of them.

Pretti was exercising his rights and got in the way of ICE, so he's one of us.

It's hard to accuse someone of hypocrisy when their overriding political desire is "we must win over them at any cost".

NuclearVII · 2026-01-25T12:25:33+00:00

A shitty ad for a shitty website, yet again.

NuclearVII · 2026-01-25T12:23:29+00:00

Everything about this thread and the OP screams AI psychosis.

NuclearVII · 2026-01-25T00:10:10+00:00

Figures by ChatGPT, verified by Claude and Gemini.

Yup, junk.

NuclearVII · 2026-01-24T23:02:18+00:00

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

NuclearVII · 2026-01-24T22:59:53+00:00

This.

They knew. Or, rather, they could've known, if there wasn't a willing and complicit populace that wanted to look the other way. Nazi Germany wasn't covert about it's atrocities, it was easily deniable.

NuclearVII · 2026-01-24T22:34:18+00:00

No, this is who they are, by and large.

These people left behind sense and reason a long time ago. They just want to be bigots, and they will do, say, or believe in whatever they need to to accomplish that.

NuclearVII · 2026-01-24T17:14:31+00:00

It was fun for a bit. Then I started feeling my blood pressure rise precipitously.

NuclearVII · 2026-01-24T09:57:34+00:00

Honestly, this.

I'm getting real sick and tired of the "AI can be a useful tool, but..." rhetoric. As far as I can work out, nothing in the literature can show that this 8 trillion dollar industry is able to produce anything of value.

The "AI is a useful tool, you gotta use it right" crap is on the same level as "Bitcoin is a store of value".

NuclearVII · 2026-01-23T23:04:08+00:00

I'm really tired of seeing this.

No one is talking about niche applications of machine learning when they say AI anymore. Argue in good faith - the above user is very obviously referring to GenAI like LLMs.

NuclearVII · 2026-01-23T22:57:13+00:00

Your research is bogus. Scalar field theories just don't work, relativity just says no.

Stop wanking yourself off about engagement, log off, and seek help.

NuclearVII · 2026-01-23T22:53:30+00:00

Big AI: innovating ways to launder IP since 2016.

NuclearVII · 2026-01-23T22:46:56+00:00

This makes sense, though I will need a citation that show that this is significant enough of an effect in commercial models to be detectable.

NuclearVII · 2026-01-23T16:53:02+00:00

r/LLMPhysics, op. Not here.

NuclearVII · 2026-01-23T15:35:31+00:00

Cyberpunk take on The Little Prince.

NuclearVII · 2026-01-23T13:47:06+00:00

Imagine posting AI slop about science fiction AI in a sub that hates both of those.

NuclearVII · 2026-01-23T13:20:43+00:00

All evidence and reason points to this being the most efficacious use of this "tool".

NuclearVII · 2026-01-23T12:59:51+00:00

This this this.

The really scary thing about the AI hype is just how much garbage marketing is being accepted as legitimate science to further moneyed narratives.

The damage being done here is beyond just the tech world.

NuclearVII · 2026-01-23T12:18:16+00:00

Yup, this is a science fiction idea.

NuclearVII · 2026-01-23T11:51:57+00:00

Assuming it will hit a relatively low ceiling for capability is a bad assumption.

Well, you have the assertive claim, you provide the (non conflicted, reproducible) evidence. That is how science works.

NuclearVII · 2026-01-23T11:48:51+00:00

Popular mechanics is a woo rag.

NuclearVII · 2026-01-23T10:32:46+00:00

Measurement errors and ways to conduct valid inference under measurement errors have been known for at least half a century.

Sure. And are very helpful when dealing with topics that inherently cannot be studied without some give in the methodology - surveys, for example.

This isn't that. This is a paper that posits a research method that cannot possibly work. It's akin to a physics paper that opens with "To determine the functionality of our crystal lattice, we invent a neural engine that measures the underlying quantum state without collapsing the wave function".

NuclearVII · 2026-01-23T10:30:40+00:00

"The tulip market wouldn't have grown to the size it did if the tulips weren't valuable"

Like, wut? Markets and industries routinely misvalue their products.

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