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“The future of AI + science is the future of science.”
— MIT’s Jesse Thaler, Director of the NSF Institute for AI and Fundamental Interactions (IAIFI)

“Physicists that use AI will replace physicists that don’t.”

“Grokking is when a neural net goes through a phase change and suddenly gets the answer.”

“The challenge for quantum machine learning is data poverty. Obtaining data sets flowing in quantum coherence is tough.”

“You can think of physics as a meta language for complex dynamic systems.”

“We don’t know how these AI models work, but we don’t care.”

You can Ask Jesse about all this with replies in his voice: ChatJesseT.com I asked him about the possibility of LLMs to bridge the vernacular of separate scientific disciplines, a translator for interdisciplinary advance. I like the ChatJesseT response even more, below.

5 responses to “Deep Learning (AI) + Deep Thinking (Physics) = Deeper Understanding”

  1. We are gonna’ need parallel/different AIs that DO NOT know about each other, to cross check the validity of important AI deductions/inductions/greakthroughs. Because, the humans who build and tend the AIs will get old/lazy/die and none of the new/younger/non-original builder/tenders will have a clue about how the AIs work. This sets up a fascinating competitive dynamic: breakthroughs being confirmed by multiple independent alternate AIs…"scientific progress fly-by-wire"…We’ll all be buying RAIGAI = Redundant Arrays of Independent General Artificial Intelligences. 😉

  2. Specialist AI to synthesize and interpret input from multiple Medical Specialists dealing with complex/evolving patient situations = a massive start-up opportunity. Anyone who has ever had (or assisted someone who has) a complex medical condition will attest to the HORRIBLE (i.e., slow, inaccurate, not-creative, wrong) cross-disciplinary communication and synthesis that is commonplace in ICUs and emergency rooms. Another simpler "demand intercept" for this tech would be an AI that watches for and alerts nurses/doctors to adverse potential interactions of various drugs being tried/used on a patient – massive combinatorial complexity, huge danger.

  3. ps: Dear AI, please integrate gravity with quantum mechanics. Please state if this is impossible. Back up your work using equations underlying the standard model, special/general relativity and loop quantum gravity/super-symmetric string theory. Please cross check your answers as though you are Penrose, Witten and Wilczek inhabiting the same mind. 😉

  4. [https://www.flickr.com/photos/stephenbove] this is exactly the point, we lost focus of the deeper unsolved questions and the plan is not to leave it all to a black-box that no one understands. Real waste of time and money.

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