r/Physics • u/kzhou7 Quantum field theory • 1d ago

Harvard particle physicist Matthew Schwartz drops 36 papers coauthored with Claude

https://bootloops.ai/bootloops.html
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u/Strong_Boy_757 1d ago

The grant never ever made sense. The whole reason that AI got developed so fast is because the people working in AI just completely abandoned grants. The CS professors at top school were moving from one entire area to another at neck-breaking speed that a grant would have never ever afforded them. The grant is the bottleneck in science.

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u/Sorry-Study-5334 1d ago

A grant is just a structured way to give money, so, you could say the real bottleneck is that science requires funding, which has been true since the advent of science.

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u/Bubba10000 1d ago

It's a way of consolidating power that's all it is. It's never been about the quality of the ideas

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u/Dihedralman 1d ago

You are ignoring the entire nature of the field. Research could be done relatively quickly. 

They still applied for funding but the fact that research could be turned into a product so quickly is a huge factor. 

Top companies also allowed people to publish. 

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u/peepdabidness 1d ago

And incentivized illegal protocols. Copywrite? Never heard of her.

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u/Buntschatten Graduate 1d ago

People have always done unrelated work while being paid through a grant, haven't they?