Can LLMs turn surprising observations into research questions and discover physical laws?
rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-11-01
ZhenYangCS poses a research question: many physical laws defy human intuition — can LLMs, like human scientists, convert unexpected observations into research questions and discover laws through iterative experimentation? The post links to the accompanying paper, touching on the AI-for-science automated discovery paradigm.
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