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It's certainly handy for summarising the existing corpus that we are unfamiliar with (though take acuracy with a grain of salt).

Proposing new theories I'd be extremely skeptical of. It's just not what this thing is made to do.

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It’s not gonna spew completely solid hypotheses but I can see how these ideas can be amazing seeds for us to pursue further. Importantly I asked it to think like Einstein. In exchanges I didn’t put here, it first just said Einstein would have worked on string theory if he were alive today. I reminded it that einsteins unique ability was to imaginatively think of completely new ideas. It then spewed these two topics. It’s like asking it to write songs in a particular poets style but for science. That sounds amazing to me.

Importantly it clearly has some understanding of these theories. At least as much as any regular person would, in my opinion.

It's kind of weird. This technology is designed for the human to give the machine a prompt. What I like about your approach is that you're almost using it to create the inverse: the machine supplying a slightly fuzzy idea that could prompt you to take your research in new and unexpected directions.

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