Not because it’s smart or will figure it out on its own. It’s just a lot better at aggregating completely disparate pieces of information. A scientist researching in one field doesn’t hold the the whole body of knowledge of other fields. So it takes time to piece the bits together.
This is why discoveries are often made near simultaneously in different parts of the globe by different people. Just enough information gathered in just the right locations seen by people with the appropriate amount of knowledge.
With AI, that last bit gets faster and it will get the credit.
LLMs can’t and won’t cure cancer. That’s why they go into the ai race.
AI will cure cancer before human scientists.
Not because it’s smart or will figure it out on its own. It’s just a lot better at aggregating completely disparate pieces of information. A scientist researching in one field doesn’t hold the the whole body of knowledge of other fields. So it takes time to piece the bits together.
This is why discoveries are often made near simultaneously in different parts of the globe by different people. Just enough information gathered in just the right locations seen by people with the appropriate amount of knowledge.
With AI, that last bit gets faster and it will get the credit.