GENERATIVE AI

Thanks a lot to @CadeMetz for quoting me in this excellent @nytimes article on the impact of AI on science. I discussed my experience with GPT-5 Pro and how these amazing AI collaborators will change and super-accelerate how we advance science! “Dr. Derya Unutmaz, a professor at the Jackson Laboratory, a biomedical research institution, said the latest A.I. systems had reached the point where they would suggest a hypothesis or an experiment that he and his colleagues had not previously considered. “That is not a discovery. It is a proposal. But it lets you narrow down where you should focus,” said Dr. Unutmaz, whose research focuses on cancer and chronic diseases. “It allows you to do five experiments rather than 50. That has a profound, accelerating effect.” When Dr. Unutmaz uses A.I. for his research into chronic diseases, he said, he often feels like he is talking with an experienced colleague. But he acknowledges the machine cannot do its work without a human collaborator. An experienced researcher is still needed to repeatedly prompt the system, explain what it should be looking for and ultimately separate the interesting information from everything else the system produces. nytimes.com/2026/01/14/techn…

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