I’m not a physicist myself but interested in it, and this was one of the topics I thought I’ll coax the bot into imagining. The theories might not be solid (I wouldn’t know myself), but I’m excited about the bots future as a companion for every day work in science.
I’m a biologist by training and have already made significant progress on multiple difficult questions I’ve had trouble with for decades in the 2 days I’ve had gpt4. Can’t wait to see what all we could accomplish with it!
"made significant progress on multiple difficult questions I’ve had trouble with for decades in the 2 days I’ve had gpt4" -- that is wildly impressive. Can you share some specific questions. Thanks!
I have had hypotheses regarding Epigenetic modulation of mutation rates playing a role in “epigenetically directed evolution;” this is not my primary field and honestly not a topic anyone has properly focused on. I’ve even corresponded with a couple of experts in related fields but didn’t make progress. Chatting with the bot I discovered scientists who might have actually generated some data on this topic a bit inadvertently that I never discovered merely by googling. I’ve made a list and am going through the literature already. I can’t imagine what else I can do with this tool if I can drag and drop pdfs for it to get more context on such arcane topics.
I think this is the best use case of ChatGPT, as a first level search engine to surface out any potentially relevant information. But I would be careful using it on a subject I'm not familiar with or relying on its content directly. When I query knowledgeable areas I've found it be wildly off on many facts, I shudder to think how someone outside the area would interpret its content.
I tried using chatgpt 3 for light research onto British occupation of Afghanistan and poppy production, I wanted to know potential books/authors which covered how long back Afghanistan might have been an exporter of poppy/opium and it ended giving me some really bad quality answers including stating that one author had actually written a book called "Opium and the kung-fu master", which is not a book at all! But an older Chinese action movie decrying the evils of opium addiction...
Interesting, thanks!. I see this as falling into the bucket of taking unstructured data/thoughts and mapping it well to structured/articulated data that is already out there. LLMs do excel at this and keep getting better fast (minus the hallucination, but that is easy to cross check). Would love to see examples of truly novel thesis generations that are verifiably plausible, which aren't a remix of what came earlier...
I’m a biologist by training and have already made significant progress on multiple difficult questions I’ve had trouble with for decades in the 2 days I’ve had gpt4. Can’t wait to see what all we could accomplish with it!