I see everyoine is (rightly so) ripping on Musk's new all-male xAI effort to "understand the true nature of the universe."

But the real problem is AI can't tell us anything new beyond what scientists have already figured out. It doesn't do any "thinking" or actual research or anything new; it simply regurgitates re-formulated ideas based on the science of what we already know.

What is MIGHT produce, especially since Musk is leading this, is garbage speculation unsupported by evidence.

@petergleick
What you say is true of AI's like ChatGPT. But some AI's are good at finding subtle patterns and may discover new knowledge by doing so. Of course, once an AI makes a putative discovery, human scientists have to treat it as a hypothesis to be tested by scientific methods.