MIT's Buehler: three weeks before ChatGPT we predicted AI as a new language of science
ProfBuehlerMIT · x · 2026-10-14
MIT professor Markus Buehler revisits his 2022 essay written three weeks before ChatGPT, in which he argued AI could become "a new language of science."
Four years on, he writes, we have the first superintelligence systems that prove theorems, build instruments, and organize societies of agents — empowering ambitious goals, unprecedented problem complexity, and expanded human creativity and discovery.
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