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LLMs as amplifiers: how experts verify science in 12 hours

I’m surprised how many smart people still say LLMs are "not useful", "not reliable", almost toys.

If that’s true… then what exactly just helped top-tier physicists conjecture and prove a previously unsolved quantum field theory result in ~12 hours?

❗No ❗ AI didn’t “do science alone" (for now!). ❗Yes ❗ humans verified, guided, and formalized everything. Exactly what devlopers do now.

But that’s the point.

In the hands of experts, these models are amplifiers.

Feels less like "AI is useless" and more like most people just don’t know how to use it yet. A classic skill issue.

ASI isn’t evenly distributed. Skill isn’t either.

Source: openai.com/index/new-resu…

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