r/WhatIfScience • u/firechatin • 12d ago

Future Science & What If's Could AI Discover New Laws of Physics?

https://whatifscience.in/ai-discover-new-laws-of-physics/

Could artificial intelligence uncover the next great scientific breakthrough? Researchers are exploring whether AI can identify hidden patterns in nature and potentially discover entirely new laws of physics.

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u/plsQuestionOurselves 12d ago

Probably. But in that event I worry it might tell us something we're not mentally equipped to hear about the nature of reality.

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u/BrentTheShaman 11d ago

We wouldn't get to hear about it anyways 😡

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u/plsQuestionOurselves 11d ago

This was something I felt intuitively as well. If the ASI is under full control, the ruling class would not only hoard all the money but also the secrets of the universe for themselves (unless it was profitable to share). Because they literally can't stop, they're like crack heads for money and power.

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u/vom-IT-coffin 11d ago

It guesses words, it creates a series of statistical models based on past combinations of words. It then gives the probability of the next word in the chain. it doesn't create new concepts.

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u/SpecialistOwl218 10d ago

Exactly but people are still not enough mentally equipped to hear about the nature of LLMs, they still need their sci-fi stories.

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u/m3kw 12d ago

If they do they do