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Re:Prism by olivia-banks on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @03:29PM (#46786101)
I'm curious how you think AI would aide in this.
Re:Prism by noitpmeder on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @03:48PM (#46786425)
Replicate this <slop>

Ok! Here's <more slop>

Re:Prism by olivia-banks on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @03:51PM (#46786463)
I don't think you understand what replication means in this context.
Re:Prism by NateEag on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @07:51PM (#46789508)
I think they do, and you missed some biting, insightful commentary on using LLMs for scientific research.
Re:Prism by vessenes on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @04:34PM (#46787221)
Tao’s doing a lot of related work in mathematics, so I can say that first of all literature search is a clearly valuable function frontier models offer.

Past that, A frontier LLM can do a lot of critiquing, a good amount of experiment design, a check on statistical significance/power claims, kibitz on methodology..likely suggest experiments to verify or disprove. These all seem pretty useful functions to provide to a group of scientists to me.