"How GPT-5.6 Sol helps run quantum computing experiments"

Sep 9, 2026 1 min read Link post, Machine learning and AI, Science

AI continues to creep into the bench sciences.

Connecting GPT‑5.6 Sol to laboratory software to run and refine routine measurements on quantum chips freed Beatriz Yankelevich to focus on experiment design and data analysis.

Yes, until the AI is doing the experiment design and data analysis.¹ Then what will the student do? Meat proxy?

(I’m actually optimistic about AI in the lab, but odds seem good it will be a net negative for the number of graduate students, Jevons be damned. Hope to be wrong.)

And reading the case study (pdf), clearly the agent is already doing data analysis.

https://openai.com/index/codex-quantum-computing-experiments/

AI is already great at data analysis, even interpretation is getting there. ↩︎

"How GPT-5.6 Sol helps run quantum computing experiments"

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