Can a chatbot be a co-author?
Theoretical physicist and Senior Fellow Andy Strominger, along with collaborators including former Junior Fellows Alex Lupsasca (2017 - 20) and Alfredo Guevara (2020 - 24), used OpenAI's advanced ChatGPT model to achieve what the group is calling the first significant AI-driven discovery in theoretical physics.
When Strominger posed a complex problem about gluon amplitudes that had stumped him and his collaborators, the AI system successfully solved it after 12 hours of processing. The group then turned the results into a paper, which has been published as a preprint on arXiv.
Read the full Harvard Gazette article.
From left: former Junior Fellow Alfredo Guevara, Senior Fellow Andrew Strominger, and David Skinner
Photo by Jeffrey Yang