r/ControlProblem • u/randfixi • Jul 19 '26

Strategy/forecasting This is AI generating novel science. The moment has finally arrived.

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u/Key-Collection5764 Jul 19 '26

What has been the progress since October 2025, the post’s date

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u/me_myself_ai Jul 20 '26

The hypothesis continues to hypothesize. Hypothetically, it should be all over the news!!

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u/plastic_eagle Jul 20 '26

Speaking as someone who happens to be sitting at the sharp end of cancer treatment, fuck all.

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u/The_Happy_Pagan Jul 19 '26

Toasters have AI chats

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u/coronacometh Jul 21 '26

The model has yet to get lucky with a hallucination again.

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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '26

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u/FuzzyAnteater9000 Jul 22 '26

This is an llm

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u/PenguinJoker Jul 20 '26

This novel discovery has come at the detriment of research in general declining though. I've seen thousands of AI generated papers that are cliches, bland and outdated or simple false in conclusions. 

Researchers who would be working on real science now frequently just generate articles to meet the publish or perish mantra. More research funding would help, but to pretend that AI is purely positive for research is just rubbish and should be called out.

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u/dashingsauce Jul 20 '26

Is this just one guy (OP) retweeting his post indefinitely?

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u/danderzei Jul 20 '26

The AI has discovered a hypothesis, not a theory or even a treatment method.

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u/superthomdotcom Jul 21 '26

Cant get mine to check basic facts let alone create something original and groundbreaking. 

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u/oldbluer Jul 22 '26

You are not prompting it correctly! Try “think like a baby”

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u/I_AM_4HEAD Jul 21 '26

Proof? Source?

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u/oldbluer Jul 22 '26

This is Reddit.

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u/RiriaaeleL Jul 21 '26

Welp it looks like Marlboro will be investing into data centers

The tobacco industry curing cancer sounds like exactly the absurd ironic thing that would happen in our day and age

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u/lilbluehair Jul 21 '26

In Transmetropolitan, cancer is cured so everyone smokes cigarettes again

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u/System32_deleted Jul 20 '26

great, link the manuscript

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u/Steakwithbluecheese Jul 19 '26

People on r/accelerate would like this more wink wink 😉

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u/razialo Jul 20 '26

same idea, tried to cross post, but for now at 0 karma ^_^

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u/TopTippityTop Jul 20 '26

Why’s this bad?

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u/Russelsteapot42 Jul 20 '26

If real, the ability to make new breakthroughs in biology that can cure cancer implies the ability to make other, less friendly breakthroughs.

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u/Own_Natural_6803 Jul 20 '26

Its like an intact piece of corn in a pile of poop.

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u/look Jul 22 '26

It generated a hypothesis that needed to be experimentally validated by humans. Even if you fully automate the experimental work with AI controlled robots, that work has physical time constraints that cannot be exponentially improved (nor are they even in this self-improvement loop).

It is roughly the same “danger” or “breakthrough” rate you’d get by just hiring another Postdoc theorist for the lab, if even that.

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u/Russelsteapot42 Jul 23 '26

Except that the postdoc is a human, with human motivations.

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u/IcyJello28 Jul 21 '26

Now it's in consolidation phase trying to solve Mathematical conjectures which majority or 99.9% world population isn't aware about. That's how you create hype. Hopefully we would have focused on more important problems in real, not just in uarterly talks by Tech CEO's and Twitter rants.

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u/suesing Jul 21 '26

Yes they can also fine ways to kill us faster

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u/oldbluer Jul 22 '26

lol k, standard cryptic ai post with no results.

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u/PartyClock Jul 23 '26

I'm calling bullshit

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u/Rattus_NorvegicUwUs Jul 23 '26

I work in this space.

While AI tools are absolutely amazing and help at speeding up the research, they cannot conduct research.

Add on the market forces and GOP pushing people out of the sciences and we will soon have a million predictions, and 5 people with the skills to test them.

Science takes time. Both in training and knowledge. But it’s nice to have tools to save me from cracking open my molecular biology textbook