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That's exactly it. Here's a quote from what he said during the article. Dude is so uniformed that he thinks AI is doing amazing stuff, but doesn't understand that experts realize AI is full of shit.
This PhD mostly uses it to summarize emails from the administration. It does a shit job, but it frees up time for more science so who cares.
The real irony is that the administration probably used AI to write the emails in the first place. The mails have gotten significantly longer, less dense and the grammar has gotten better.
Begun this AI arms race has.
Out of context, and I didn't read the rest, that sounds reasonable.
"If my dumbass is learning and finding, what about actual pros?!"
"If I'm learning this much from Baby's First ABCs, imagine what a literature professor could do with it!"
"Turns out there are 319 letters in the alphabet and 16 Rs! When the experts get a hold of this, they're going to be blown away!"
Lots of things seem reasonable if you skip the context and critical reasoning. It's good to keep some past examples of this that personally bother you in your back pocket. Then you have it as an antidote for examples that don't bother you.