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Peter Woit

What Peter Woit thinks about LLMs

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Mathematician and Senior Lecturer in the Mathematics department at Columbia University. Author of the book Not Even Wrong and of the long-running physics blog of the same name.

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  1. Our readingAI is being used to scam the public in science and academic communication.

    Their wordsOne thing that is showing up is that, in hep-th as elsewhere, AI is being used to scam the public.

    ↗HEP-TH and AImath.columbia.edu

  2. 3 weeks earlier

  3. Our readingIn an intellectually dead research field, feeding AI decades of meaningless work only produces more meaningless output.

    Their wordsin an intellectually dead field, AI will just produce worthless junk. If what you feed it is decades of complicated and meaningless computations, it will just produce even more complicated and meaningless ones.

    ↗Requiem for a Field?math.columbia.edu 2nd of 3 in this piece

  5. Our readingFrontier AI models are turning out to be more capable at technical work than expected.

    Their wordsThe results have surprised me: these things are a lot more capable than I had expected.

    ↗Requiem for a Field?math.columbia.edu 3rd of 3 in this piece