It felt as though angels were pushing
AIs are revolutionizing science and destroying it in the process
I figure that the Goddess Gaia could pilot a military jet, if she wanted to.
I know that plenty of people, out there, don’t like the idea of AIs being involved in scientific research. Not just that. They positively hate the idea.
But, look, it is a true revolution. I already told you how I could use Grok to prepare an initial draft of a complete paper in minutes. Even considering the work needed to revise it, correct it, and focus it, it was still an incredible step forward, at least an order of magnitude in terms of lower costs and higher speed with respect to the old way of writing papers.
Now, I am trying Manus and — Wow!! — If Grok was like moving from an airship to a biplane, Manus is like upgrading from a propeller plane to a jet one. It reminds me of what Adolf Galland, the German military ace, said after having tried the ME 262 jet plane for the first time. “It felt as though angels were pushing.”
This is completely changing the way we are making science, destroying it in the process, at least in the expensive, clumsy, inefficient, elitist, innovation-averse version that’s the standard one today. But that’s a good thing. We don’t need clumsy science. We need good science. We need to move onward, to a better, more open, more innovative kind of science. And AIs can help us a lot, even though they still need a human brain as a guide.
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BTW. Grok helped me understand the drivers of the Mesozoic climate. Now, Manus is helping with the Cenozoic and the Pleistocene climates. Fascinating results. Stay tuned, I’ll describe what I found in this blog.
Long before AI was used for the job, I came across many man-made articles, trying to make sense / drawing conclusions from the vast internet storehouse. That mainly concerned cancer research, a hot topic because of the billions involved plus the fraud to keep the money rolling to corporations and clinics while keeping cheap cures / prevention out of the picture.
From that perspective, AI can do a better and much faster job.
Hello. I really wonder if you (Ugo) are getting better results from AIs than I've heard from others because you quickly jump from one AI to another before it "knows" you better and starts recursively using it's previous outputs as inputs... "model collapse " IIRC.