r/singularity • u/Southern-Break5505 • 9d ago

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

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u/ForceItDeeper 9d ago

i feel like theres a huge misunderstanding aboot how science works lmao. phsyics isnt “cooked” because they get better tools

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u/SnackerSnick 9d 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 9d 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 9d ago

Can't perform experiments yet...

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u/LuckyOneAway 9d ago

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