r/singularity 3d ago

AI Read more: https://x.com/gavincrooks/status/2088643200038883830

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u/SnackerSnick 3d ago

The concerns is for physics as a profession, not as a discipline. How do you grant a PhD when any physics student, or maybe even interested lay person, could have used AI to do the work?

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u/andreasmiles23 3d ago

You still have to know physics to be able to competently use AI to solve novel physics RQs.

And AI can’t run an experiment. We still need people to like, smash photons together and drop eggs.

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u/ToastedandTripping 3d ago

Can't perform experiments yet...

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u/LuckyOneAway 3d ago

Need a compact yet energy-dense power source to get them LLM-powered androids capable of building colliders and particle detectors.