Are AI Astronomers Any Good? A Cosmologist Explores AI Co-Discovery
TheMuseumOfScience · reddit · 2026-10-10
Theoretical cosmologist Paul Sutter explores how AI tools can co-discover with scientists and take part in the scientific process. An LLM can process the same telescope data we do — from Saturn's ring imagery to a live telescope feed — but what happens between input and output remains a mystery. Asking what AI sees is really asking about our own relationship with the universe.
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