🔬Doing Vibe Physics The full story of how GPT‑5.x derived new results in theoretical physics and quantum gravity, live on our Science pod today! latent.space/p/lupsasca our conversation with @ALupsasca, an award winning theoretical physicist on his AGI-pilling journey applying GPT5 to physics problems (with a nudge from @markchen90)! Timestamps 0:00 Introduction to Al's impact on physics research 0:43 Guest introduction: Alex Luposka 2:49 Alex joining OpenAl and the shift in physics research 4:08 The release of GPT-5 and the shift in capabilities 10:05 Explaining Quantum Field Theory and amplitude calculations 14:20 Overview of gluons and the strong force 14:38 Discussing the first research paper on single-minus gluon tree amplitudes 20:56 How ChatGPT helped solve a year-long physics puzzle 23:02 Complexity of manual calculations in physics 26:12 The history and mechanics of Feynman diagrams 27:44 The Parke-Taylor formula and the quest for simplification 31:26 Using ChatGPT to find the simplification in the special phase space region 38:07 Proving the formula from scratch to ensure validity 41:00 Determining the scientific impact and future research 42:27 Introduction to the second paper on graviton amplitudes 45:41 | Defining particles, irreducible representations, and symmetry 47:46 How GPT Pro generalized the research to gravity 53:57 The epistemological shift: Is this a new way of doing physics? 59:27 The use of Al as a 'scout' for research directions 1:01:44 The role of 'taste' and collaboration with Al 1:10:23 Personal evolution from Al skeptic to resident scientist 1:12:46 Solving a black hole perturbation problem with GPT-5 1:16:34 Discussing whether Al can make original, conceptual leaps 1:20:09 Challenges of 'Al slop' and the future of academic publishing 1:23:13 The bottleneck of writing academic papers 1:30:19 Final takeaways and looking ahead to the next year
