I’m personally hoping for the next big AI gangbanger to be theoretical physics. Boy does that field need a good reshuffle. I think when any novel mathematical theory can be done by AI you’ll see simultaneously theoretical physics getting wrecked as hard as pure math is. At that point we might see new physics or paradigm shifting technology emerging.
replyWhat? No. Frontier physics is experiment driven.
replyThere have been times it was theory driven.
replyThere's no clean line between a collection of theorems and a theory.
replyI mean doing something like Grothendieck when he redeemed algebraic geometry or Galois when he invented group theory. We haven't seen that at all from LLMs.
replyIt will not happen with existing LLM techniques.
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