Mastodawn

So this afternoon a person in #ALIFE2025 's demo hall was explaining to me how they used an LLM to bounce ideas of domains they weren't familiar with.

It reminded me of when @lspector came to give a talk in my lab, back when I was a master student. He said something that left an impression on me: "all my cool ideas I had while having a beer with someone else".

So I guess that is something that "brainstorming with LLMs" steals from you. You're not having that beer with someone else anymore.

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Claus Aranha Oct 6

(for me, personally, the point of having a beer* is not even having access to people with different skill sets, although that certainly helps. But being able to find cool people you can geek out with about your research work is a ginormous motivator. A cool person as a research buddy is worth their weight in gold)

* coffee and cake in my case, though