What Michael Nielsen thinks about AI and science

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Physicist, writer and researcher, co-author of the standard textbook on quantum computation and quantum information.

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1. 7 Apr 2026

   Our readingA trained model is a new kind of object that should be taken seriously as an explanation, once we work out the operations to perform on it.

   Their wordsAnd I think the like the third and the most interesting possibility is no, that like they're they're a new type of object in some in some sense. They should be taken very seriously as as explanations, but where in the past we haven't had the ability to really do anything with them.

   ↗Michael Nielsen – Why aliens will have a different tech stack than usyoutube.com 7th of 26 in this recording