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mindwok • yesterday at 10:50 PM • 7 replies • view on HN

It is mind blowing that these long-standing conjectures and open questions are just falling by the dozen every other week. What a time to be alive.


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ChemSpider • yesterday at 11:16 PM

How long until we see similar announcements for (wet lab) chemistry, medicine or material science? Months? Years? Never?

(Never would mean AI will be used in future labs like a fancy calculator, but not much more changes)

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nonethewiser • today at 2:08 AM

It’s accelerating. We can automate scientific discovery. Imagine the amount of knowledge we may have over the next several years. It could be staggering.

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__MatrixMan__ • yesterday at 10:54 PM

Chasing open questions, it seems to me, is worthwhile for the things learned along the way. Do you expect these results will be helpful, or is it just a sign that we need a new way to navigate uncharted spaces now that longstanding problems don't stand long enough for us to organize around?

It feels a bit like having "visited" a place because you had a layover there.

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jvanderbot • today at 12:33 AM

I have a strong sense that there's many more CS problems falling than will be released quickly. CS starts to get tangible / actionable pretty quickly.

XorNot • today at 12:47 AM

Seeing a physics result in there has got me hyped.

Turn this loose on LHC data ASAP.

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ComplexSystems • today at 12:47 AM

I know, it's awful. How do we get OpenAI to stop before they ruin math forever? /s

onesandofgrain • today at 2:05 AM

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