Physicists scooped by Anthropic AI: 'more low-hanging fruit than experts expect'
soumitrashukla9 · x · 2026-09-26
Physicist Kyle Cranmer discovered his team was scooped by Anthropic's AI; collaborator Lance Dixon wrote about the experience after verifying the result under NDA. The key takeaway: low-hanging fruit is more plentiful than experts assume, even for simple, well-defined goals.
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