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Re:GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics by woeirua on Friday February 13, 2026 @03:26PM (#47007391)
You should probably email the authors if you think that's true. I highly doubt they didn't do a literature search first though...
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Re:GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics by emp17344 on Friday February 13, 2026 @03:33PM (#47007454)
You should be more skeptical of marketing releases like this. This is an advertisement.
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Re:GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics by godelski on Friday February 13, 2026 @03:49PM (#47007636)
They also reference Parke and Taylor. Several times...
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Re:GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics by suuuuuuuu on Friday February 13, 2026 @03:48PM (#47007625)
Don't underestimate the willingness of physicists to skimp on literature review.
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Re:GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics by baq on Friday February 13, 2026 @04:12PM (#47007891)
After last month’s Erdos problems handling by LLMs at this point everyone writing papers should be aware that literature checks are approximately free, even physicists.
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Re:GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics by coldtea on Friday February 13, 2026 @08:44PM (#47010565)
It's hard to get someone to do literature first when they get free publicity by not doing literature search and claiming some major AI assisted breakthrough...

Heck, it's hard to get authors to do literature search, period: never mind not thoroughly looking for prior art, even well known disgraced papers get citated continue to get possitive citations all the time...

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