German professor: AI already spots data patterns far beyond humans, science now hinges on models and tokens
FlorianGallwitz · x · 2026-11-08
Florian Gallwitz argues that modern AI can recognize structures and regularities in data far beyond human capability and articulate them in words. He contends scientific progress now primarily depends on model quality and how many tokens you can afford — recent math breakthroughs came from a handful of people without deep math training — and suspects AI is already or soon will be better than most scientists at asking the right questions.
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