Your LLM-Assisted Scientific Breakthrough Probably Isn't Real
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The post warns that LLM-assisted scientific breakthroughs are likely to be false, and the discussion reinforces this skepticism.
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eggsyntaxAuthor
4 months ago
Many people have been misled by LLMs into believing they have an important breakthrough when they don't. If you think you have a breakthrough, please try the reality checks in this post (the first is fast and easy). If you're wrong, now is the best time to figure that out.
compressedgas
4 months ago
Because no science was involved.
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