alt Hacker News> I don’t need an ai to connect across ideas or come up with new hypothesis.
This feels like hubris to me. The idea here isn't to assist you with menial tasks, the idea is to give you an AI generalist that might ne able to alert you to things outside of your field that may be related to your work. It's not going to reduce your workload, in fact, it'll probably increase it but the result should be better science.
I have a lot more faith in this use of LLMs than I do for it to do actual work. This would just guide you to speak with another expert in a different field and then you take it from there.
> In many fields, this presents a breadth and depth conundrum, since it is challenging to navigate the rapid growth in the rate of scientific publications while integrating insights from unfamiliar domains.
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I have a billion ideas, being able to automate the testing of those ideas in some kind of Star Trek talk to the computer and it just knows what you want way would be perfect. This is the promise of ai. This is the promise of a personal computer. It is a bicycle for your mind. It is not hubris to want to be able to iterate more quickly on your own ideas. It is a natural part of being a tool building species.
> the idea is to give you an AI generalist that might ne able to alert you to things outside of your field that may be related to your work
That might be a good goal. It doesn't seem to be the goal of this project.
> This feels like hubris to me.
No, any scientist has hundreds of ideas they would like to test. It's just part of the job. The hard thing is to do the rigorous testing itself.