Vibe physics: The AI grad student

Can AI do theoretical physics? In this guest post, professor of physics Matthew Schwartz decided to find out by supervising Claude through a real research calculation, start to finish, without ever touching a file himself. His account of what happened is below. SummaryI guided Claude Opus 4.5 through a real theoretical physics calculation, encapsulating the complexity of code and computations behi

[takayamaki]

LLMは指示に従って疲れることなく動き続ける一方、内容が複雑になるとそれっぽい不正確な式を使ってサボッたり、論文の分野ごとの細かい慣習を知らないものの、修士課程2年と同程度の論文執筆能力がある、という話

[morimarii]

「 I am more confident that the bottleneck is not creativity. LLMs are profoundly creative」なるほどなあ……

[misshiki]

Claudeで理論物理研究を実験。1年分を2週間で論文化も誤りや捏造が多く、人間の検証が必須。AIはG2レベルで研究を10倍加速するが自律研究は未到達。