AI telling us string theory is that silly string is safe to eat

Years later, after untold exaflops of computing, the AI's answer appears on the screen: "Dunno".

Thanks, that was interesting. I kept thinking that this reads like something out of Quanta Magazine, and then at the end there was an attribution to them :)

To all the reflexive AI-downvoters: This is about an application of machine learning, not an LLM. Don't behave like an advanced autocomplete; think before you click :P

"With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk" -- John von Neumann.

What makes up the strings?

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String theory captured the hearts and minds careers of many physicists decades ago because of a lack of empiricism beautiful simplicity.

Improved that somewhat.