MIT's Buehler: AI is becoming the 'new language of science,' a 2022 bet now realized
CatAstro_Piyush · x · 2026-10-19
MIT professor Markus Buehler revisits his 2022 argument (published three weeks before ChatGPT) that AI could become a new language of science. He traces how the language of physics evolved from numerals to equations, computational models, and now learned, integrated AI representations — adaptive, interconnected, and compositional, evolving through data, reasoning, and interactions among models and agents. Four years on, he says AI helps prove theorems, build instruments, and organize societies of agents, expanding the boundaries of discovery.
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