Roon questions why AI scientific-discovery odds stay below 95%
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Roon, an X account, asks why the odds of AI making major scientific discoveries would not exceed 95%.
In the post, roon cites AlphaFold's work, which won the 2018 Nobel Prize, and OpenAI's Fields Medal-level results this year. Roon also links to a survey in which 58% of Anthropic staff expect Claude to make a Nobel Prize-level discovery by 2027. The post poses the question and does not state a probability estimate of its own.
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roon@tszzlXRoon asks why AI discovery odds are not above 95%AIroon asks why the odds of AI making major scientific discoveries would not exceed 95%, citing AlphaFold's 2018 Nobel-winning work and OpenAI's Fields Medal-level results this year. The post links this to a survey in which 58% of Anthropic staff expect Claude to make a Nobel Prize-level discovery by 2027.
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