Researcher shares lab mishap: AI cannot yet replace physical trial and error
johnowhitaker · x · 2026-08-19
AI researcher John Whitaker shared a humorous lab mishap where he knocked over a cuvette and got a laser in his eye, halting the experiment. He noted in the discussion that while AI can help write code and generate plots, it still cannot replace human trial and error and intuition in the physical world.
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