wonderful story by @joshuasokol.bsky.social about AI in astrophysics (this is the first i've heard of "vibe physics"!) as well as the big questions AI brings up: why do we *do* anything? is it more valuable to just have answers, or to journey in the messy, human pursuit of knowledge?
jane c. hu
What is the value of human beings studying the cosmos? For @michaelgreshko.bsky.social at Science, I dug into how practitioners of humanity's oldest exact science are metabolizing the latest developments in AI...and how it seems to be forcing them to wrestle with philosophical questions.
www.science.org
Researchers see enormous power in new tools—but also the potential end of astrophysics as a human endeavor
