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Using AI to perceive the universe in greater depth

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55 points diwank | 1 comments | 05 Sep 25 02:35 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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hodgehog11 ◴[05 Sep 25 09:41 UTC] No.45136733[source]▶
It's good to see that at least one tech company is interested in using machine learning for scientific research. You know, research that plausibly benefits humanity rather than providing a tool for students to cheat with.

Several colleagues of mine have had to switch out of scientific machine learning as a discipline because the funding just isn't there anymore. All the money is in generic LLM research and generating pictures slightly better.

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Jach ◴[05 Sep 25 09:57 UTC] No.45136811[source]▶
Did you notice this? https://openai.com/index/accelerating-life-sciences-research...
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1. hodgehog11 ◴[05 Sep 25 15:09 UTC] No.45139483[source]▶
No, thank you for sharing. At first glance, I would argue this is still along the lines of what DeepMind has already done, and unlike DeepMind, they don't seem to care to engage with the communities that have been involved with this for a long time. But still, this suggests scientific machine learning is not abandoned by OpenAI, and maybe some others that I have missed. Hopefully there is a change in the winds over the next few years!