Comment by roenxi
14 days ago
The current crop of AIs can't do science though, they are disconnected from the physical world and can't test hypothesis or gather data.
14 days ago
The current crop of AIs can't do science though, they are disconnected from the physical world and can't test hypothesis or gather data.
They can definitely gather and analyze all sorts of data proactively. I'm guessing you haven't used o3 Deep Research?
You've misunderstood, I mean in context. tensor said "I want one that is primarily scientific driven" - Deep Research can't achieve that because it can't independently run experiments. It can do research, but doing research isn't being scientifically driven, being scientifically driven means when you're not sure about something you run an experiment to see what is true rather than going with whatever your tribe says is true.
If Deep Research comes up against a situation where there is controversy it can't settle the matter scientifically because it would need to do original research. Which it cannot do due to a lack of presence in meatspace.
That might change in the future, but right now it is impossible.