An Optimistic Case for LLMs in Science — Even If They Stay 'Mediocre'

A notable AI commentator argues that LLMs don't need to become great at formal scientific reasoning to dramatically accelerate research — they just need to remove friction.

@teortaxesTex offered a counterintuitive take on the AI-for-science discourse: "LLMs will accelerate science like you wouldn't believe, even if they remain mediocre at 'AI for science.'" The argument reframes the debate from whether LLMs can do science to whether they can remove the enormous volume of non-science work that scientists currently do — literature review, code debugging, grant writing, data formatting, paper drafting.

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