Harry Collins: LLMs can't do frontier science because they can't invent new language
whoamisri · reddit · 2026-09-11
Sociologist Harry Collins argues that LLMs can't do frontier science because they can't invent new language: genuine scientific breakthroughs require creating entirely new conceptual frameworks to describe the unknown, while LLMs can only recombine existing language and concepts. The piece has sparked discussion on Reddit.
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