Artificial intelligence researchers claim to have made the world’s first genuine scientific discovery using a large language model (LLM), which is behind ChatGPT and similar programs. This signals a major breakthrough.
The discovery was made by Google DeepMind, an AI research laboratory where scientists are investigating whether LLMs can do more than just repackage information learned in training and actually generate new insights.
It turns out that they can, and the implications are potentially huge. DeepMind said in a blog post that its FunSearch, a method to search for new solutions in mathematics and computer science, made “the first discoveries in open problems in mathematical sciences using LLMs.”
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