Caltech's Hirosi Ooguri on whether AI can discover physics before we do
TOEwithCurt · x · 2026-10-14
Curt Jaimungal hosts Hirosi Ooguri's first-ever English podcast. Ooguri chairs the Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy at Caltech, is a University Professor at the University of Tokyo, and former director of Kavli IPMU. They discuss whether AI could discover the laws of physics before humans do, physics' "final boss," and numbers from his PhD thesis that resurfaced 20 years later.
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