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I assume solving one of the major open problems of physics?
by senderista 2mo ago
I assume solving one of the major open problems of physics?
- colordrops 2mo agoFor it to be like a human it wouldn't just need to solve existing phsyics problems, it would need to push the field forward and introduce new paradigms.
- petilon 2mo agoSolving "open problems" will push the field forward.
- colordrops 2mo agoMy comment wasn't very long, yet you somehow still ignored the main part, "and introduce new paradigms". The point is whether it can do everything humans can, entirely new theoretical frameworks and ideas, such as string theory or dark matter, are not coming out of AI at the moment.
- type_enthusiast 2mo agoWould this be possible without it being able to run novel real-world physics experiments autonomously? (Note: I am not suggesting we let it do this. Please don't, in fact)
- petilon 2mo agoAI could discover candidate novel physics without autonomously operating new physical experiments, and humans or instruments can later independently validate the result. This is analogous to how Einstein developed theories whose predictions were confirmed by experiments and observations only years or decades later.
- auntienomen 2mo agoDo we have any examples of an current day AI system introducing a novel concept or perspective. We've got plenty of counterexamples discovered and some theorems proven, but afaik nothing analogous to a new definition.
- adastra22 2mo agoWhy not?
- minimaxir 2mo agoThat's how we get AM.
- adastra22 2mo agoMornings? Long-wave radio?
- Duwensatzaj 2mo agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Have_No_Mouth,_and_I_Must_Scream https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Have_No_Mouth,_and_I_Must_Sc...
- Den_VR 2mo agoPharmaceuticals already are…
- guelo 2mo agoIt could be a good theoretical physicist. Actually it could be a good experimental physicist as well since senior experimental physicists use grad students for the manual labor.
- adastra22 2mo agoThat’s already been done. I know of at least one novel result contributed by Claude to frontier physics. I’m sure there is more.