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bygtall ( 79522 ) writes:
I'll assume the "current AI" is LLM based. Why would anyone expect it to make new discoveries of intellectual depth. All its doing is rearranging the deck chairs, there's nothing deep about that. It can do it faster than humans, I suppose there's that.
As someone above noted, most scientists are in trenches mining salt (my paraphrase). To put it in a different light, most science is pushing current theories a bit farther, or figuring out new consequences of current theories; they are not discovering new theories. Even there, physics is replete with "new theories" that are pretty much different spins on old theories. Creating anything ground breaking, in the sense of Einstein, is becoming increasingly rare because science has gotten so good at exploring fuck all. And the current physical theories, those that are verifiable, are damn good at describing what we see.
Also, groundbreaking to most people means a brand new widget has been developed. That's engineering, not science.
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by2TecTom ( 311314 ) writes:
Honestly, what i see is most science is someone doing make work and publishing bs so they can keep their grant and their title. As long as they are tenured and publish, they can enjoy a prestigious free ride, that is what science is about these days.
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