Columbia CS Professor: Why LLMs Can’t Discover New Science
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50 min
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2 min
Topics
Artificial Intelligence, Crypto & Web3, Science & Discovery
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What It Covers
Columbia CS Professor Vishal Mishra explains why LLMs cannot discover new science, discussing his formal mathematical models that define the boundaries of current AI capabilities.
Notable Moment
Mishra accidentally invented retrieval augmented generation while trying to fix a cricket statistics website interface, creating a natural language query system fifteen months before ChatGPT launched.
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