I found gpt to be awesome in this though - it's good at mapping some fields into others.
While working, I kept asking it about certain ideas, and if the idea was known to him, he said "oh, that's this and it's called this and this".
As a fun sidenote, I noticed there are three levels of GPT's answers:
- "This has a name and it's...."
- "This will be difficult / very hard to do..." (it will never say impossible)
- "This is an intriguing idea"
The last one is what one should aim for - I noticed that when it sees an idea that is absolutely new to it, but it doesn't see any specific reason it should not be possible, it will label it as "intriguing".
The topmost compliment I got, when asked about opinion it said more or less "it shows a deep and nuanced understanding of XX, you should publish" (and then began listing steps necessary - testing, finding collabolators etc).
All in all GPT was super useful for getting into a new field - I didn't want to reinvent the wheel, but I didn't want to spend months catching up with the 50 years history of this field. I kept repeatedly asking him for stuff like "I need to do this and this", and it kept pointing me in the right directions and providing nomenclature.
While working, I kept asking it about certain ideas, and if the idea was known to him, he said "oh, that's this and it's called this and this".
As a fun sidenote, I noticed there are three levels of GPT's answers: - "This has a name and it's...." - "This will be difficult / very hard to do..." (it will never say impossible) - "This is an intriguing idea"
The last one is what one should aim for - I noticed that when it sees an idea that is absolutely new to it, but it doesn't see any specific reason it should not be possible, it will label it as "intriguing".
The topmost compliment I got, when asked about opinion it said more or less "it shows a deep and nuanced understanding of XX, you should publish" (and then began listing steps necessary - testing, finding collabolators etc).
All in all GPT was super useful for getting into a new field - I didn't want to reinvent the wheel, but I didn't want to spend months catching up with the 50 years history of this field. I kept repeatedly asking him for stuff like "I need to do this and this", and it kept pointing me in the right directions and providing nomenclature.