Greg Brockman: frontier models with test-time compute are becoming the engine of scientific discovery
DeryaTR_ · x · 2026-11-10
OpenAI president Greg Brockman endorsed the view that frontier models, with lots of test-time compute, are becoming the engine of scientific discovery.
The quoted post frames this as the arrival of "Science 4.0": AI drives the discovery process while humans just steer it toward directions of interest, predicting superintelligence will make more scientific progress in the next decade than in the past century.
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