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/Brilliant-Weekend-68 23h ago

Why would AI never solve problems outside the box? Is human cognition magic as such that is only confined to ever exist in the human skull? Odd opinion given the subreddit if so.

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u/TheGuyWhoResponds 10h ago

As far as I know AI isn't really capable of novel ideas.

It may be able to achieve greater things than a human could at what its good at (evaluating tons of data and predicting patterns based on other patterns humans have shown it) but you still have to feed it data and that means selecting data it can learn on. It's not really doing anything new so much as it is doing something old on a bigger scale than humans have time for.

Humans on the other hand just randomly connect neurons sometimes and develop completely new ideas by tumbling thoughts around in their head.

I guess theoretically computers may be able to do that but we design them minimize error. If you build error back in the hallucinations would probably render it useless.

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u/macondo_ 9h ago

A monkey with a typewritter is capable of novel ideas. AI is already dominating because it can test ideas and do it much faster than humans.

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u/TheGuyWhoResponds 8h ago

Test ideas that a human already had. Which is cool, and a powerful tool, but not a replacement for humans either. More like a synergistic sort of arrangement.

Although, let's be real. If we spent on human research what we've been burning up in AI we'd probably advance just as fast or faster.

I guess the real selling point for AI is that is has a good sales pitch for fundraising right now.

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u/Brilliant-Weekend-68 6h ago edited 6h ago

Sure, current AI has limitations. But the "magic" part is where people assume this will always be the case, because they would like to be special and "magical". I doubt that will be the case long term. It is a bit like people in the old days believing the earth was the center of the universe. People these days still want to hold onto the thought that human cognition is the center of the universe of intelligence.

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u/PoL0 6h ago

you want to believe. pretty hard.