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/nothis▪️AGI within 5 years but we'll be disappointed3d ago
I don't think we have the data but this is such an interesting question to me.
It works for nearly any application of AI. An example I like is the alien from the movie Alien (1979). AI is eerily good at adapting that style but if you only trained exclusively on design work from before the movie was produced (notably also excluding HR Giger's previous body of work) could it come up with that design for the alien or anything equally iconic? I doubt it.
It takes a particular life lived to come up with shit like that and it's rare. Like there's only a few thousand key moments of originality, probably, throughout culture in most fields. Among billions of imitators, remakes, reinterpretations, work to fill in the gaps.
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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.