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Re:Answers are getting cheaper, good questions aren't. On industrialis...
on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @10:23AM (#50353159)
As AI produces more scientific results, understanding them and finding worthwhile new questions become increasingly valuable.
I propose a two-part approach.
First, autonomous or human-directed AI agents submit their work to a public repository.
Second, the scientific community draws from this pool of results, identifies the important ones and asks the next set of important questions. This work of interpretation, synthesis and question formation should be recognised and rewarded in peer-reviewed academic journals.
Re:I think I found a planet nobody knew existed. I used Claude Code to...
on Thursday October 08, 2026 @04:56AM (#50003447)
Brilliant application. Imagine the progress we could make with models post trained on scientific process and a good agentic process.
I've been tinkering with the latter for the last couple of months. Yesterday my system made some progress on instabilities on a particular superconductive system: https://colinocallaghan.com/autonomous-ai-research/Spatial-P...
Re:I think I found a planet nobody knew existed. I used Claude Code to...
on Thursday October 08, 2026 @04:50AM (#50003405)
with a proper stats harness the false positive rate can be brought well down to acceptable levels
Re:Opus 5.5 agents discover two room-temperature magnetic semiconducto...
on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @08:05AM (#49977241)
Im not saying block math development. Im saying lets prioritise spending the computer power on some useful tech
Automated Science and the Halting Problem
Re:Opus 5.5 agents discover two room-temperature magnetic semiconducto...
on Monday October 05, 2026 @05:21PM (#49970961)
While we should be skeptical until made in a lab or verified by others, this is a much better use of LLMs than solving math theorems/conjectures