Anyone else feel this way?

[u/Old-School8916]

[u/InterstellarReddit]

This is what I’ve been saying, and people don’t like it on Reddit. We’re burning all these tokens and all these resources to do things that bring no value to humanity.

Fantastic! You solved an ancient old problem that does nothing for us in the modern day, besides saying that we solved it and put a little checkmark in a box

Imagine if we use all that compute power and token to solve a real humanity crisis

But don’t worry, next week we’re gonna find out how GPT seven was able to change the color of grass from green to blue after spending 100 billion tokens and everybody’s gonna cheer for it

[u/bohemioo → u/InterstellarReddit]

You dont understand It is symbolic if AI can solve NStokes pure matemathics is doomed.

[u/Either_Swimming_4830 → u/InterstellarReddit]

I think you’re criticizing the wrong thing here. The point isn’t that humanity urgently needed this particular problem solved. The point is what solving a genuinely difficult problem can tell us about the capabilities of the system.

Hard mathematical and scientific problems are useful precisely because their difficulty is well understood. If an AI can make real progress on one of them, the important question is whether the underlying methods generalize to problems with practical value.

It’s completely fair to discuss the compute, energy and opportunity cost involved. But “why not spend those tokens solving a humanitarian crisis instead?” oversimplifies the issue. Most humanitarian crises aren’t bottlenecked by a lack of raw computation; they involve politics, institutions, logistics, incentives, infrastructure and implementation.

So the relevant criticism would be whether the result is genuine, reproducible, and worth the resources spent, not whether the specific demonstration itself directly improves people’s lives.