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Hirosi Ooguri: Could AI Find Physics We Can’t Understand?
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SPONSORS: - Go to https://www.plaud.ai/curt and use the promo code "CURT" to get a Plaud device today - Our listeners get up to 30% off their entire order at https://undrdog.com Every episode days early, ad-free, plus my essays: https://curtjaimungal.com This is a podcast about whether AI could discover the laws of physics before we do. Hirosi Ooguri, chair of Caltech’s Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy, joins for his first English podcast to explain why AI has moved faster in mathematics than in physics. He fears it could solve physics in a way we cannot understand. We discuss why quantum field theory lacks a firm mathematical foundation, quantum gravity as the “final boss,”…