When Will LLMs Produce New Theories?
burny_tech · x · 2026-07-19
A post relayed a perspective on the upper limits of future LLM capabilities: if a model could one day propose a "new theory" in fields like the Geometric Langlands Program—approaching the 2024 work of Gaitsgory and Raskin—it would represent a massive capability leap. The author estimates this is still about two years away.
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