Comment by potsandpans

I usually hate analogies because they're imprecise.

But in this case, isn't use of llm / generative ai to tackle new frontiers just another instrument to be used to understand the universe?

An engineer picks up a telescope, and uses it to build new applied technologies, a scientist uses the data it produces to answer new mysteries.

No one's saying, "we have to be careful with the information the telescope produces".