vessenes 5 days ago

Tao’s doing a lot of related work in mathematics, so I can say that first of all literature search is a clearly valuable function frontier models offer.

Past that, A frontier LLM can do a lot of critiquing, a good amount of experiment design, a check on statistical significance/power claims, kibitz on methodology..likely suggest experiments to verify or disprove. These all seem pretty useful functions to provide to a group of scientists to me.

noitpmeder 5 days ago

Replicate this <slop>

Ok! Here's <more slop>

  • olivia-banks 5 days ago

    I don't think you understand what replication means in this context.

    • NateEag 5 days ago

      I think they do, and you missed some biting, insightful commentary on using LLMs for scientific research.