@rohanpaul_ai: Theoretical Physics just crossed the same threshold mathematics did. AI will make a lot of junior-level theoretical phy…
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A tweet discusses how AI, specifically Claude, is crossing a threshold in theoretical physics similar to mathematics, potentially making junior-level research much cheaper.
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Theoretical Physics just crossed the same threshold mathematics did.
AI will make a lot of junior-level theoretical physics research dramatically cheaper to do. https://t.co/kofkUHfRyg
Gavin Crooks (@gavincrooks): Physics is going to be as cooked/cooking as math. I fed Claude an open problem in stochastic thermodynamics of the kind I’d suggest to a mathematically inclined grad student. And over a few days of back and forth, it did months of work and closed the whole problem class.
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