Comment by root_axis
I think it would raise some interesting questions, but if it did yield anything noteworthy, the biggest question would be why that LLM is capable of pioneering scientific advancements and none of the modern ones are.
I think it would raise some interesting questions, but if it did yield anything noteworthy, the biggest question would be why that LLM is capable of pioneering scientific advancements and none of the modern ones are.
I'm not sure what you'd call a "pioneering scientific advancement", but there is an increasing amount of examples showing that LLMs can be used for research (with agents, particularly). A survey about this was published a few months ago: https://aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-main.895.pdf
Or maybe, LLMs are pioneering scientific advancements - people are using LLMs to read papers, choose what problems to work on, come up with experiments, analyze results, and draft papers, etc., at this very moment. Except they eventually stick their human names on the cover so we almost never know.