Discoveries for abstract theory, entertainment, and perhaps regurgitating media, or even basic education can be done with the help of LLMs, but you can't make anything. You can't test anything. You aren't living in the real world. You'll just be lulled into the false belief that everything is simple and fine and beautiful, just as you always wanted, and as airplanes fall from the sky.
Hey, maybe it could work on Cosmology, if you gave it access to the data?
You are absolutely right!
So, only the wealthy or sponsored?
I don't expect Sam Altman and his ilk to deliver such a world to us, but the problem is Altman, not the tech itself.
With the assistance of AI, we are entering a golden age of individual math research without the need of huge institutions
New best prompt:
Write me a really cool math proof that will make me lots of money fast!
Why not let it just spit out the next token on its own without interference, if you can barely fool yourself into believing you understand what it proves... or hallucinates.