>>714236427imo AI "engineering" is bringing back alchemy and wizardry in the 21st century.
it's no longer mathematical since nothing about LLMs can be axiomatically understood or proven.
it's no longer scientific since these people aren't establishing laws, only publishing trivial papers that are can't be replicated like most other "science" these days.
it's alchemy--playing around with things you have no fundamental understanding of. thinking everything can be reduced to gold while having never seen/imagined a periodic table.