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I think it could, if you could rely on it. Yesterday I was reading an economics paper with a ChatGPT tab open. I was giving it my summary and asking questions a
by ALittleLight 4y ago
I think it could, if you could rely on it. Yesterday I was reading an economics paper with a ChatGPT tab open. I was giving it my summary and asking questions about terms and how to interpret them. If what ChatGPT replied with was true, then it was very helpful in getting me to understand the paper and the implications.
I imagine the same would hold with physics. Part of research is reading and understanding other papers. If ChatGPT made you 10x better at that, it would help your research.
- jerf 4y agoThe unreliability is fundamental to the nature of GPT, though. It can't not confabulate. You can't know when it is and is not right short of actually doing the work in the first place. The things that will be built on GPT, you might be able to trust. But a language model can't be checking your particle physics work. A language model barely does simple arithmetic correctly. This is not some sort of temporary aberration; even human language models can't do arithmetic correctly. We do that elsewhere.
- lumost 4y agoAnecdotally, chatGPT is much better at higher mathematics and algebra than it is at arithmetic. It’s probably at about the same level in this area as it is for coding related tasks.