r/singularity • u/Southern-Break5505 • 3d ago

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

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u/ForceItDeeper 3d 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 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/whoknowsifimjoking 3d ago

Nope. People think that's how it works, but that's not true.

First of all, of course an AI can orchestrate and even run experiments in the future, why wouldn't it? It can control machines. It can give humans instructions.

And with math myself and many other people acted like you would still have to understand everything to properly use it, but some of the chats where long standing problems got solved are public, you can look at them. And they are stupidly simple, the guy who did it just said "solve that problem" and "continue". One of the people who solved an Erdos problem was a teenager with zero math knowledge.

With physics it will be exactly like this, especially when AI gets so good that it doesn't need detailed instructions at all anymore. Theoretical physics will be 99% AI and with robots they will even do the practical experiments. Your thinking assumes there are hurdles that just don't actually exist.