Thomas Wolf arguing why we won’t have AI Einstein—at least in its current form.
…the skill to ask the right questions and to challenge even what one has learned. A real science breakthrough is Copernicus proposing, against all the knowledge of his days -in ML terms we would say “despite all his training dataset”-, that the earth may orbit the sun rather than the other way around.
To create an Einstein in a data center, we don’t just need a system that knows all the answers, but rather one that can ask questions nobody else has thought of or dared to ask. One that writes ‘What if everyone is wrong about this?’ when all textbooks, experts, and common knowledge suggest otherwise.
Wonderful insight. I am pretty sure that if AI had been available before we discovered that Earth orbits the Sun—and not the other way around—AI wouldn’t have dared to question that knowledge.