> I think a very long time because part of our limit is experiment.
replyYes, maybe. But if you are smarter, you can think up better experiments that you can actually do. Or re-use data from earlier experiments in novel and clever ways.
this. could already be useful to narrow down the search space
replyWhat prevents us from giving this system access to other real systems that live in physical labs? I don't see much difference between parameterizing and executing a particle accelerator run and invoking some SQL against a provider. It's just JSON on the wire at some level.
replyNothing, we can give it all the data we have and have it lead experiments.
replyBut we can not yet experiment at the GR/QFT frontier.
To do so with a particle accelerator it would need to be the size of the milky way.
The question is, if you trained an LLM on everything up until 1904, could it come up with E=MC² or not?
replyIn 1900 Henri Poincaré wrote that radiation (light) has an effective mass given by E/c^2.
replySo it really isn't far fetched. What intrigues me more is if it was capable of it would our Victorian conservative minded scientists have RLHF it out of that kind of thing?