MIT's Buehler on AI as a new language of science: superintelligent partners and executable papers
CatAstro_Piyush · x · 2026-10-16
- MIT professor Markus Buehler recalls arguing three weeks before ChatGPT's launch that AI could become a new language of science; four years later, superintelligence systems can prove theorems, build instruments, and orchestrate agent societies across labs.
- His vision: every scientist gets a superintelligent partner, instruments are built on demand, papers become executable, and agent ecologies coordinate invention across institutions.
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