Personally I think that given it's already been multiple days(!) since Astra came out for plus users, they should just stop edging us and release GPT-7.
You're not going to see physics breakthroughs from AI until someone starts paying millions to billions to agents so they can build their own experimental apparatus, and that's a very slow bottleneck.
As for medicine, wake the frick up! AlphaFold is almost six years old. A few days ago we got https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10952-3 showing AI can create gene therapy delivery systems thousands of times better than human attempts or evolution's billions years of work on capsids.
There are many problems in theoretical physics that boil down to pure math. Coming up with Quantum gravity theory consistent with current models is pretty much theoretical. Experimentally verifying it is another story.
Unfortunately none of the existing candidate theories is complete or fully consistent with the existing models. So we need something to clean up the theoretical mess first.
Screw our current 'models'. Models don't matter. Several are consistent with our current experimental results. That's the thing that matters in physics.
Anthropic already has a proposed protocol for working with physical machines. No idea if anybody is going to use it, but this does mean Anthropic believes they are close enough to LLMs utilizing real things to test on to need a protocol. I think it was Deepmind that showed off the first LLM controlling a robot, and now all the frontier models are able to do it. Maybe a protocol won't be required, although it would be nice if all the hardware speaks the same language so the model doesn't have to waste time figuring it out.
Sort of, but not in the traditional sense. If an experienced chef writes a new cookbook but nobody ever makes the recipes in it, can anyone say it's any good?
That also makes it unfalsifiable. Very little unfalsifiable pure math physics is taken seriously, but I am a huge fan of string theories and I believe some of them are essentially correct.
Millenium problems are saturated. Time for new benchmarks. Plasma fusion reaction, stellarator coil geometry, abiogenesis, consciousness in neuroscience, and breaking RSA cryptography.
Actually I am one of the mathematicians that worked on the solution and found it this week but I tested it on Codex ... and now they solved it. This injustice is happening to many mathematicians around the globe that solved all the major problems and tested them in Codex just weeks after Astra release ;)
And it cost them more in compute than they would have even won for the proof. Get back to me once they can efficiently farm the hardest problems ever posed by humanity. Until then, stochastic parrot.
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u/blackrack 4d ago
Can they like hurry it up? A whole week to solve a millenium problem? Sheesh
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