Swedish theoretical physics (string theory) Ulf Danielson today in Swedish mainstream media (SvD) concludes that with now AI writing articles and then including whatever theoretical physics is needed, there is no longer any role for theoretical physicists like himself with former prime role to contribute that element to science and education:
- Research is becoming meaningless.
Danielson thus gives up completely when confronted with AI, but this surrender has been prepared during 50 years of theoretical physics dominated by string theory, where physics seems to have been replaced by words without meaning.
But is it true that AI now can take over theoretical physics? If true, a first task could then be to find out if string theory makes any sense or not. Asking Claude I do not get a clear answer. This is the same if I ask simple questions about quantum mechanics. It seems that AI is as confused as human theoretical physicists concerning the mysteries of QM, no wonder recalling that AI is trained to propagate the mysteries.
But AI has a capacity as LLM showing to surpass that of humans, if only left alone, namely to follow the logic of language. With that ability it should be possible to sort out the mysteries of QM resulting from violating logic and so give a new start 100 years after QM was born.
RealQM represents such a new start realized by me as human interacting with AI. My impression is that AI could not have done that by itself. A new idea was needed in this case, and it came from questioning accepted truths beyond AI training, at least as of now. What about Danielson's vision a year from now?
The Clay Navier-Stokes problem solved by AI (or not who can tell?) has put mathematicians into free fall and since theoretical physics is mathematics, also the theoretical physicists as witnessed by Danielson.
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