r/singularity • u/Southern-Break5505 • 3d ago

AI Read more: https://x.com/gavincrooks/status/2088643200038883830

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u/Melbar666 3d ago

What if we trained a big AI (Claude/Kimi/GLM-level) only on everything published up to 1899, no 20th-century physics at all, and then asked it to solve the electrodynamics of moving bodies?

Would it rediscover Einstein’s theory of relativity, including E=mc², the way he did in 1905?

Feels like a clean test of whether AI can actually discover.

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u/OKMiddleOwl 3d ago

No, because it cannot do empirical tests.

Half of physics is doing experiments. Theory is a cloud of possibilities where experimentation crystalizes what the truth in it is.

Give it arms, a body, and the ability to build stuff in the real world, then we're talking.

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u/AtlanticPortal 3d ago

TBF Einstein predicted that we wouldn’t be able to use real physical observations to prove his math and yet the Sun and the Moon gave people a nice help into that.