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I'm curious as well about the use of AI in that field.

But AFAIK, the thing is, we humans dont perfectly understand the topic.

So I think we need much more data and/or understanding to input in those methods.

Pretty sure the people studying in this field already know how to google papers.

Sure, as an outsider curious about getting involved, a high level summary is exactly what LLMs are good at.

Why the negativity?

> Cool that AI will help us take this leap

Because in this specific instance it isn't doing anything to help us take this leap.

Right, and a hammer is not a saw. Different tools do different things.

In this example the llm helped point me to a few relevant tools in the field, including https://materialsproject.org/ml, which is a different AI tool that might help us take this leap.

I feel like I'm the one talking to an AI.

I could ask ChatGPT why you're likely to be a grumpy bad-faith asshole, but as an expert in the field of dealing with children, you probably just need a snack.

Why the negativity?

Does any of its answers actually make sense though?

Um, yes. It gave me a handful of good leads for related open source projects to check out. Why the negativity?

Because generative AI isn’t creating new ideas, it’s just remixing existing ideas. This is exactly the type of thing AI is useless for.

If you define "creating new ideas" widely enough to make your statement true about generative AI it's also true about most engineering and science carried out by humans.

I don't need AI to "generate" new ideas. Here I'm using it as a search to point me to things I can research.

Why the negativity?

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