alt Hacker NewsSimilar stuff is being done for material sciences where AI suggest different combinations to find different properties. So when people say AI(machine learning, LLM) are just for show I am a bit shocked as AI's today have accelerated discoveries in many different fields of science and this is just the start. Anna archive probably will play a huge role in this as no human or even a group of humans will have all the knowledge of so many fields that an Ai will have.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/super-diamond-b26...
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bjarlsson • last Wednesday at 6:23 PM
What does this cited article have to do with AI? Unless I’m missing something the researchers devised a novel method to create a material that was known since 1967.
It's a matter of perspective and expectations.
The automobile was a useful invention. I don't know if back then there was a lot of hype around how it can do anything a horse can do, but better. People might have complained about how it can't come to you when called, can't traverse stairs, or whatever.
It could do _one_ thing a horse could do better: Pull stuff on a straight surface. Doing just one thing better is evidently valuable.
I think AI is valuable from that perspective, you provide a good example there. I might well be disappointed if I would expect it to be better than humans at anything humans can do. It doesn't have to. But with wording like "co-scientist", I see where that comes from.