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Not even humans with PhD can do physics research without a lab. How could a model with just a few tokens of context window and no body do that?
by visarga 3y ago
Not even humans with PhD can do physics research without a lab. How could a model with just a few tokens of context window and no body do that?
- Zondartul 3y agoMost of researchers' work is with formulas and reading articles. Even if you had a lab, you'd still need to think long and hard about what exactly you are trying to measure, and then design an experiment on paper before it can be carried out. So it's possible, in theory, that an AI-in-a-box could do the hardest parts of science aside from experiments. Whether modern LLMs are any good at it is a different question.
- ElFitz 3y agoWhat would should have a lab have, today, in the context of research on topics like string theory? That a simple office with a desk would not have, I mean. Genuinely curious.
- SkyMarshal 3y agoObviously I’m talking about mathematical/computational physics, not experimental physics. I don’t expect the AI to build itself a tokamak to run experiments on.