Scientific Research
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Crespo: AI will compress 15-year scientific research timelines into two years
“I actually think that now, probably in two years, you can actually, actually achieve things that you would have done before in 15 years.”
Casado: AI will liberate scientific research by bridging cross-disciplinary literature
“And so in a way, I think AI has the ability to pull out of this mass craziness, this mass ineffectiveness, which a it's very good at telling you if you've done it before, right? You know, it's very good at that. It actually knows all the literature, knows all …”
Hsu: Scientific research and creativity fundamentally involve hallucination
“People criticize these models for hallucinating, but if you think about it, the process of scientific research just involves hallucination, right? That's what creativity is.”
Commercial Voice AI Therapists Lack Meaningful Scientific Research Backing
“The thing I can say for sure is they're being introduced without any scientific research showing, I mean, I found one study on voice therapy, one controlled study that had been done, And there are voice therapists on the market right now.”
McAteer: AI reasoning models are probably already superhuman at scientific synthesis
“I think that I think it's hard for one person to take in so much data, so much information and like make connections. And I think that's definitely one of the areas where these models, they're probably already superhuman at doing that.”
Altman: GPT-6 will be a general-purpose tool for scientific research
“And with GPT-VI, I think people will say, hey, this is like helping me as a general purpose tool in all these ways.”
Liang: AI with human oversight can produce class-project-level research
“I think you're at the level where it could probably generate things and, you know, I think it would still be a lot of, you know, human loop, but you could generate probably let's say I don't know, a class project type of project.”
Zurbuchen: The hardest part of research is balancing between irrelevant and impossible
“I think the hardest part of research is always to find that edge, right? So kind of, you know, kind of, if you really look at the best research, you know, I think of it like I'm a mountain guy. I think of it as like walking in the mountains on that ridge on th…”
Levinson: Scientific research investments lack predictable timelines for economic returns
“We know that as a general proposition, it's been important for economic growth that we've had scientific research going on. Does that mean that if we put more money into scientific research now that we will be able to benefit from the consequences at any predi…”
Andreessen: Scientific R&D will shift to decentralized, bottom-up global networks
“It may be that we are just gonna be living in a world where it's gonna be much more bottoms-up, much more collaborative, much more diffuse, much less well-organized, much sloppier. Maybe, by the way, more dynamic, maybe more creative, maybe more intermingling …”
João Batalha: Accessible scientific writing enables cross-disciplinary discovery
“You always benefit if you can make it as clear and accessible as possible because you never know, like the audience that is going to be, end up reading your paper. You can, you, of course you can expect that the people in your field are going to read it, but s…”
Galef: Anyone can cherry-pick scientific studies to make a compelling case
“I think it's quite easy to present what looks like a very compelling case for whatever you want to convince people of. Using, using studies using quotes from experts, using even, even randomized controlled studies, which are sort of the gold standard allegedly…”