Physics

“AI is kind of what Calculus did for physics. AI will do for biology in the sense that it'll help us weave back together lots of very complex pieces that build these complex systems that then have certain properties.”

“So there's implicitly a lot of common features, even across physics that are gone by different equations. So that's how you see across different domains, across different mathematical models. There's a lot of Shared features that these neural models can pick u…”

“For 53 years, you've been denied new boom, vroom, and zoom, and potentially The stagnation in physics may have led to the survival of the human species because the boom is so terrifying.”

“Because we have foundation models for language, maybe vision, but not for physics. So, you know, the idea is instead of like right now what we've seen are narrow surrogates and we're trying to broaden their scope more and more, but ideally we have much broader…”

“If you look at Nobel Prize winners who win in physics and chemistry and math and so on, they all do their formative work in their twenties, basically. Then there's a decade of application in their thirties, and then they get the Nobel Prize for that work they …”

“I think there's a whole, like, set of models that nobody's built yet, or that I should say people are building, but it's very early. That I think could be incredibly impactful and interesting and just like cool, you know, like it'd be super interesting to rein…”

“I think you know, a third area is the next set of foundation models are going to come, and by that I don't mean the Neolabs and the Next Gen LLM, which of course will happen, but I mean, physics, materials, science progress by models, math progress. And I thin…”

“On the material science side, we're seeing scaling laws within physics, within chemistry both with respect to simulations, with respect to experiment, and it's like the same kind of principles at play and ML.”

“Physics is very verifiable. It's a great reward function, fairly fast iteration loop. You have simulators for large classes of physical systems.”

“We found that there's actually something very, very, very precise and surprising underlying AI training. This really blew us away that there are these nice trends that are as precise as anything that you see in physics or astronomy.”

“I do think that ultimately underlying physics is information theory. So I do think we're in a computational universe, but it's not just a straightforward simulation.”

“I think, like, you could get another X and I don't see any in-principle reason why at the next X, the physics is, like, just would not allow the robots to move fast enough.”

“You think about physics in our portfolio, right? Famously, they have eighty million people a month coming to their YouTube properties, and that's the top of the funnel to then get into the rest of their engine.”

“The fact that somebody else, I really believe, is now gonna go solve all the physics with this stuff, like, I'm so excited to be alive for that.”

“Other things like cures for aging and stuff like that, like we don't have them yet, but there is no, you know, no laws of physics prevent people, you know, from living indefinitely.”

“The more you're doing it with like, just junk you have lying around the house, the more it resonates with people. Cause it's like, ah, why didn't I think of that? That's so clever. I can actually do that.”

“Oppenheimer will probably draw more people into physics, you know, than STEM funding in high schools will.”

“At least from the equations of physics, if you consider the whole system of civilization, the equations predict that the system will optimize towards its growth, towards consuming more free energy.”

“My prediction is that it will require at least a variant on known physics, if not entirely new physics, to make happen, just because that's sort of the nature of those massive breakthroughs, especially, I mean, room temperature superconductor is, A guaranteed …”

“When you think about the responsibilities of AI, I think you know, the model is actually more analogous to physics. Like literally the study of physics itself than the weapon.”

“A majority of minority-majority schools, so that's a mouthful, but a majority of minority-majority schools don't offer courses like Algebra II, Physics, Et cetera. Not to even mention things like AP courses or IB courses.”

“Computer science and stats is to this century, because physics was awesome for, you know, understanding the natural world... Now, today, because so much of the world is a constructed virtual world... CS and stats becomes, I mean, it was valuable before, but it…”

“The laws governing inanimate bodies are just a lot simpler and more easily quantified than the laws governing populations or individual people. So, the task of the social sciences is extremely hard. They get to feed back on the system that's measuring them. It…”

“Any two electrons anywhere in the universe are absolutely indistinguishable. There is no diversity of subatomic particles. I mean, they're different particles. Electrons are different from protons, but every electron is completely the same in every respect as …”

“It is ultimately chemistry and physics. I mean, there's no, I don't believe in any vital spirit Or soul, or anything like that. I'm sure some people do, but I don't, I mean, to me, it's all material. It's gonna ultimately be understood in purely materialistic,…”

“When you've tried everything and it doesn't work, there may still be something left that you haven't tried yet because you thought it was too outlandish. Well, you got to try it.”

“Well, unfortunately, I think you have to be really mainstream. Sometimes I think too much. Sometimes I think too much. By mainstream now, I mean people are often trained within a framework which is fairly tight and rigid.”

“Large parts of physics and CS have been coming together in the last decades you know, partly statistical physics made this very, very deep connection between like spin glasses and condensed matter physics and combinatorial optimization problems.”

“Progress in physics really felt like it had sort of slowed down pretty substantially compared to the, you know, The sort of, the period in which so much of what, you know, we were learning about you know, that, that, that's a broader period of discovery I felt…”

“Unlike the data sets arising in physics, the data sets that typically fall under the big data umbrella are about people, Their attributes, their actions, and their interactions. That is to say these are social data sets that document people's lives, behaviors …”