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It will be absolute carnage when AI starts going over published papers and trying to reproduce results, and I mean across the board. Every field.

If you want to see paper retractions, you ain’t seen nothing yet.

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Good luck trying to judge experimental papers.

Well I do assume lab automation in all the hard sciences. Social science already doesn’t reproduce so no difference there.

Your assumption is wrong. Consider, for instance, the LHC dataset, which reach O(EB). Just bringing the data into disks, loading into RAM in chunks, doing the data analysis and reduction, and doing the statistical analyses and fits, is a monumental task.

Consider now the work needed to operate the detectors, acquire the data, do calibrations and validations.

Notwithstanding designing, building and commissioning the detectors.

Please don’t assume lab automation.

Sounds like you have never worked in a lab.

Sounds like you’re in denial about the impacts of AI.

I'd love to see a robot load a mouse onto a rotarod

or perform a tail vein injection or oral gavage

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