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Adam Brown

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Dwarkesh Podcast
Adam Brown – How Future Civilizations Could Change The Laws of Physics

This is at a higher level of abstraction than that, but it wouldn't surprise me if it's able to debug what you say in that way.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Adam Brown – How Future Civilizations Could Change The Laws of Physics

Yeah, I...

Dwarkesh Podcast
Adam Brown – How Future Civilizations Could Change The Laws of Physics

I take an exam I gave years ago in my graduate general relativity class at Stanford and give it to these models.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Adam Brown – How Future Civilizations Could Change The Laws of Physics

And it's pretty extraordinary.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Adam Brown – How Future Civilizations Could Change The Laws of Physics

Three years ago, zero.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Adam Brown – How Future Civilizations Could Change The Laws of Physics

A year ago, they were doing pretty well.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Adam Brown – How Future Civilizations Could Change The Laws of Physics

Maybe...

Dwarkesh Podcast
Adam Brown – How Future Civilizations Could Change The Laws of Physics

A weak student, but in the distribution.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Adam Brown – How Future Civilizations Could Change The Laws of Physics

And now they essentially ace the test.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Adam Brown – How Future Civilizations Could Change The Laws of Physics

In fact, I'm retiring that.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Adam Brown – How Future Civilizations Could Change The Laws of Physics

That's just my own little private eval.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Adam Brown – How Future Civilizations Could Change The Laws of Physics

It's not published anywhere, but I just give them this thing just to follow along how they're doing.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Adam Brown – How Future Civilizations Could Change The Laws of Physics

And it's pretty strong.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Adam Brown – How Future Civilizations Could Change The Laws of Physics

It may be easy by the standards of graduate students.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Adam Brown – How Future Civilizations Could Change The Laws of Physics

courses but a graduate course in general relativity and they get pretty much everything right on the final exam.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Adam Brown – How Future Civilizations Could Change The Laws of Physics

That's just in the last couple of months that these have been doing that.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Adam Brown – How Future Civilizations Could Change The Laws of Physics

Physics problems compared to math problems tend to have two components.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Adam Brown – How Future Civilizations Could Change The Laws of Physics

One is to sort of take this word question and turn it, using your physics knowledge, into a math question.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Adam Brown – How Future Civilizations Could Change The Laws of Physics

Yeah.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Adam Brown – How Future Civilizations Could Change The Laws of Physics

And then...