I think all progress will accelerate significantly with the dawn of true AI. The fusion scientist can now ask ChatGPT for ten (or 10,000) ideas on how to solve a particular roadblock, and a lot of the suggestions will be actually good. The cost of intelligence has suddenly become near-zero, and that will supercharge everything to do with innovation
LOL, no. Asking ChatGPT is no different than just googling the question, except the answer is more nicely formatted. ChatGPT has no actual intelligence in it.
"The fusion scientist can now ask ChatGPT for ten (or 10,000)"
Since the ChatGPT can't perform empirical experiments and update it's suggestions based on those experiments it has no way to tell a "bad" idea from a "good" one.
