AI Beating Nearly All Scientists in 2-3 Years? Hard Sciences Have Physical Limits
niloofar_mire · x · 2026-11-11
A reply claimed that within 2-3 years AI would best all but the 97th-percentile humans in any scientific field. The author pushes back: lab-limited hard sciences will take much longer, since speeding up natural reactions is far less straightforward than making models better at coding—some processes have environmental hard limits. They may eventually be accelerated, but not within two years.
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