GPT is getting better at doing physics but has a long way to go.
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I’ve been playing around with GPT-4, which is free with Microsoft Copilot, to see if it could help me with my research. A dirty little secret is that, at least in my case, when I have to do some tedious calculations I often end up just putting off my work. My chosen areas of study, gravity and quantum theory, both have some of the most off-putting calculations. Your basic Einstein equations have 10 partial differential equations. If you want to work in a particular coordinate system, you have to get all that right. If you are adding stuff to Einstein equations, that gets worse. I typically work in 5-dimensions, which means 15 equations. Usually, I’m in the ADM formalism too, which means I’m looking at how spacetime moves in another dimension.
GPT is getting better at doing physics but has a long way to go.
GPT is getting better at doing physics but…
GPT is getting better at doing physics but has a long way to go.
I’ve been playing around with GPT-4, which is free with Microsoft Copilot, to see if it could help me with my research. A dirty little secret is that, at least in my case, when I have to do some tedious calculations I often end up just putting off my work. My chosen areas of study, gravity and quantum theory, both have some of the most off-putting calculations. Your basic Einstein equations have 10 partial differential equations. If you want to work in a particular coordinate system, you have to get all that right. If you are adding stuff to Einstein equations, that gets worse. I typically work in 5-dimensions, which means 15 equations. Usually, I’m in the ADM formalism too, which means I’m looking at how spacetime moves in another dimension.