Jack Altman: So reasoning will lead to science going faster or just new stuff or both?
Sam Altman: I mean, you already hear scientists who say they’re faster with AI, like we don’t have AI maybe autonomously doing science, but if a human scientist is three times as productive using o3, that’s still a pretty big deal.
Jack Altman: Yeah
Sam Altman: And then as that keeps going and the AI can autonomously do some science, figure out novel physics-
Jack Altman: Is it all that happening as a copilot right now? [this is exactly what Jack Altman says]
Sam Altman: Yeah there’s definitely not… You definitely can’t go say like, “Hey ChatGPT, figure out new physics” and expect that to work. So I think it is currently copilot-like, but I’ve heard like, anecdotal reports from biologists where it’s like, “wow, it really did figure out an idea. I had to develop it, but it made a fundamental leap.”
This is a nonsensical conversation, and both of them sound very, very stupid. This is pretty much what they said:
“So, is this going to make new science or make science faster?” “Yeah, I hear scientists are using AI to go faster, but if a human scientist goes three times faster using my model that would be good. Also I heard from a guy that he heard a guy who did biology who said ‘this helped.’'
I can't believe people give this guy billions 🤔😆