AI and the practice of theoretical physics
Douglas Natelson (noreply@blogger.com)
Matthew Schwartz of Harvard has made a big recent splash, between his public Aspen talk "10000 Einsteins" a year ago about the role of AI and the future of physics, and his talk last week at the APS Global Physics summit on the same topic, and now with this essay, "Vibe Physics: The AI Grad Student", on the website of Anthropic (producers of the AI tool Claude).
The essay talks about how Prof. Schwartz used Claude to write this paper, and he states that the AI tool functions roughly like a 2nd..