🔬Top Black Holes Physicist: GPT5 can do Vibe Physics, here's what I found

GPT-5 reproduces months of research in 30 minutes

Lubyansky's best paper, which took him significant time to develop, was reproduced by GPT-5 in approximately half an hour.

o3 enabled mathematical reasoning for physics

ChatGPT o3 was the first model capable of advanced math useful for theoretical physics calculations, marking the transition from AI as an email tool to a research instrument.

Codex solves expert simulation challenges rapidly

OpenAI's Codex recently wrote a simulation of the SYK model in 10 minutes, a technical quantum mechanics problem that multiple research groups had failed to solve.

Single minus gluon amplitudes proven non-zero

AI helped resolve that single minus gluon tree amplitudes are non-zero, contradicting textbook assumptions and dimensional analysis arguments that suggested they must vanish.

Problem stumped experts for over a year

This specific problem in quantum field theory regarding scattering amplitudes with one opposite-helicity gluon puzzled physics experts for more than a year before AI solved it quickly.

Fundamental objects of quantum field theory

Scattering amplitudes describe particle interaction probabilities in colliders and encode the complete content of physical forces like the strong nuclear force mediated by gluons.

Crossing the superhuman threshold

AI has passed a milestone where it exhibits superhuman performance in specific scientific directions, enabling solutions to frontier theoretical problems previously inaccessible.

Rapid adoption by senior physicists

After initial skepticism, most senior colleagues in physics are now aware of AI's trajectory and are actively integrating these tools into their research workflows.

Continuous capability jumps

Successive model releases including GPT-5 and version 5.4 show accelerating improvements specifically at the science frontier rather than in consumer tasks like email.