AI and the future of science
If we're going to have Einstein-level AIs doing physics research in a decade, what does that mean for the rest of science?
What follows is a 3,000-word essay written primarily by OpenAI’s o1 pro. The essay arose from a dialogue between myself and o1 pro, about Dwarkesh Patel’s recent podcast interview with physicist and AI researcher Adam Brown. I fed the transcript of the interview into o1 pro, and asked the AI to tell me everything that Adam said about AI. Of particular n…