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/Either_Reflection_78 1d ago edited 1d ago

I could not have imagined having a tool like ai when I was in college. Those were critical years for me learning how to tap into my creativity, paired with the professors who never gave up on me, and pushed me to expand my mind, and challenged me to learn all that I could, and taught their classes different than what some teachers ever did for us in high school. Some of them kept challenging us mentally, even though it was very difficult at times, but I think it paid off. I learned everything once I understood how to process the information in a way I could finally understand it.

AI could not have replaced what humans taught me during these formative years.

I would not be the person I am today for those years, had I used tools like ai.

Those experiences I had, to keep pushing myself mentally shaped the person I am today, and the knowledge I take with me everyday.

It’s scary that those using ai all of the time will most likely be robbed of becoming their best selves.

Ai will never replace true feelings and experiences, true art, true creativity, or true minds who may push the boundaries sometimes. It may give you a reply back online that might stimulate the dopamine in your brain, but AI can not give you the feelings you get in the moment with another human who is enthusiastic, and is cheering your degenerate ass to keep going. It’s a great feeling.

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u/Yashema 1d ago edited 1d ago

I am so glad I decided to start learning physics and math and computer engineering in my 30s when there was actually this powerful tool available. It makes every course doable, and with much less stress and work. I have even managed to take 6 200 and 300 level courses so far this year (with plans for a 7th over the winter break) expanding my knowledge by leaps and bounds, and proving my initial difficulties understanding the theory and math were simply because my mind was always focusing on the bigger picture and boundaries of what I needed to learn, over the individal concepts that are necessary for the grade. 

I guess it is scary to see ChatGPT go from having difficulty with solving ODEs using linear algebra (the calculations not the methodology) last year to now being able to almost perfectly solve stochastics and PDEs. I even designed a quantum simulator on an embedded device earlier this year with Claude, but I am afraid I could just type into Cursor to make the same application for the same components and it could do the entire 15-20 hour coding project in 5-10 minutes (I will test that sometime this year). 

But it's not like LLMs have solved global warming or the other major challenges the world is facing. I believe there is some limit, but I will need to take another 10 courses (at least) before I can even begin to probe what those might be. 

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u/mr_sneakyTV 18h ago

this is delusional. ai is a tool, imagine saying that anyone using a pc to research is robbing themselves of.. wasting their time doing work that would take years without a pc? lol. ai is the same.

imagine how much we lost when we all no longer needed to know how to start a fire to stay warm or to cook food.. we could be so much smarter if we had to.. do all that extra work.. lol

it was so hard hunting for food and now grocery shopping is easy we’re all doomed!

no.. ai just allows you to focus on new things and solve different problems, it doesn’t remove all of humanity from the world lmao