AI Paper Drop

Can LLMs Uncover Hidden Physical Laws through Free Exploration?

AI Paper Drop

Show Notes

Can an AI discover physics on its own? This episode explores a wild experiment where LLMs are dropped into worlds with broken laws of gravity to see if they can act like real scientists.

http://arxiv.org/abs/2610.37649v1

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