>> So let’s ask ourselves: would AI have told us this? My first thought: if it did, would you believe it? > Yes and it did And before today and this thread,

>> So let’s ask ourselves: would AI have told us this? My first thought: if it did, would you believe it? > Yes and it did And before today and this thread, if I asked something like it honestly, without already knowing the answer, and an LLM answered like this... ... I'd figure it's just making shit up. Before AI will be able to "pretty much solve all our outstanding scientific problems Real Soon Now", it needs to be improved some more, but there's a second, underappreciated obstacle: we will need to learn to gradually start taking it more seriously. In particular, novel hypotheses and conclusions drawn from synthesizing existing research will, by their very nature, look like hallucinations to almost everyone, including domain experts.