Adam Brown

And...

at the end of that time, writes down a theory that completely reconceptualizes nature's most familiar force and also speaks not just to that, but speaks to the origin and fate of the universe and almost immediately achieves decisive experimental confirmation in the orbits of

astronomical observations of the orbits of planets and the deflections of lights during eclipses and stuff like that.

It's a pretty beautiful theory.

And it completely changed our idea of gravity from being a force to just being a artifact of the curvature of space-time.

I have...

heard it said, and I kind of agree with this, that maybe the very last thing that these systems will be able to do, these LLMs will be able to do, is given the laws of physics as we understood them at the turn of the last century, invent general relativity from that.

So I think that's probably the terminal step, and then once it can do that, if it can do that, then there won't be much else to do as far as humans are concerned.

It's pretty extraordinary.

I mean, particularly coming from a physics background in which progress is pretty slow, to come to the AI field and see progress being so extraordinarily rapid day by day, week by week, year by year.

Looking at it, it certainly looks like these LLMs and these AI systems

in some sense are just interpolators, but the level of abstraction at which they're interpolating keeps going up and up and up.

And we keep sort of riding up that chain of abstractions.

And then presumably from a sufficiently elevated point of view, the invention of general relativity

from Newtonian physics is just interpolation at some sufficiently grandiose level of abstraction that perhaps tells us something about the nature of intelligence, human intelligence, as well as about these large language models.

If you ask me how many years until we can do that, that is not totally clear, but...

In some sense, general relativity was the greatest leap that humanity ever made.

And once we can do that, perhaps in 10 years, then we will have fully encompassed human intelligence.

Will it have the same...

Will it be of the same character as what Einstein did?