Some random things that may be of interest:<\/p>\n
LLMs should be much better than the usual crackpots at generating worthless papers about theoretical physics, likely should be able to generate papers not easy to distinguish from a lot of what is on the arXiv. I’m wondering how much of this has already happened.<\/p>\n
In math, Daniel Litt has noticed a bunch of recent LLM-generated worthless papers on the Hodge conjecture<\/a>. As examples, he points to these<\/a>, four papers posted during the past month. Unfortunately the arXiv does not seem to now have an effective way to protect itself against these things getting posted, or to get them removed once identified (Daniel identified them publicly two weeks ago, no indication anything will be done about this).<\/li>\n By publishing this document I aim to rectify the historical narrative for the benefit of the mathematical community and of the general public and to ensure that proper attribution and academic integrity is upheld by all. (a) The canonical basis was \ufb01rst de\ufb01ned in my work [L90] and Kashiwara\u2019s subsequent contribution built directly on this foundation. And everyone who knows the history would suggest Kashiwara to publicly acknowledge (a) and (b), to correct all false and misleading information once and for all.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n Update<\/strong>: Daniel Litt has also written about this on his blog<\/a>. There’s a comment there from “knzhou” saying Some random things that may be of interest: Ethan Siegel has a discussion of “vibe physics“, people convincing themselves that they can solve fundamental scientific problems by chatting with an LLM. For a story about one billionaire doing this, see … Continue reading
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\nI trust that all readers -including Kashiwara- will recognize these established facts:<\/p>\n
\n(b) The crystal basis is not solely Kashiwara\u2019s discovery.<\/p>\nThe link they give<\/a> doesn’t appear to work and I don’t know of any other way to access this archive<\/del>. The link<\/a> now works.<\/em><\/li>\n
\n“This is also happening in hep-ph, which now has an average of 1-2 nonsensical papers per day.”<\/p>\n
\nUpdate<\/strong>: Terry Tao’s NSF grant at UCLA has been suspended<\/a> (along with 279 others), because UCLA is “antisemitic” since there were anti-genocide protests there last year. Unclear to me in this case which pro-genocide forces are collaborating with the dictator to shutdown Terry Tao, and why they are doing it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"