AI-generated physics ideas mostly already done in past 2 months, physicist finds
burny_tech · x · 2026-10-25
Physicist Quasilocal shares an observation from AI-generating physics papers: the model proposes many research ideas, but after a recent literature review, most turn out to have already been done in the past two months. He speculates the model was trained before those papers appeared — and those papers may themselves be the result of others prompting AI similarly.
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