Claude pushed a physics calculation past the record a human set.
Anthropic said on Friday that Claude finished a physics calculation no person had completed before. The work predicts how particles scatter, and the computing bill came to a few thousand dollars. Lance Dixon of SLAC, who set the earlier record at eight layers, checked the answer himself.
Why it mattersMachines are starting to finish work only a handful of specialists could even attempt. The person who held the record is now the one marking the machine's homework.
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