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> Science needs experiments and those will not go faster because of AI. Even though I am deeply skeptical whether AIs (as they are commonly understood today) w
by aleph_minus_one 2y ago
> Science needs experiments and those will not go faster because of AI.
Even though I am deeply skeptical whether AIs (as they are commonly understood today) will be helpful for hard scientific problems (for quite different reasons), I don't think this argument necessarily holds: couldn't a (hypothetical!) AI propose much better experiments and experimental designs?
- quonn 2y agoThat‘s not how science has progressed in the past. It has not progressed by giant leaps of superior intelligence but incrementally and hardly a genius was more than 10 years ahead of his time.