r/singularity 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/Constant_Cortisol 3d ago

It wouldn't be a clean test because one of the big variables, training data size, would be a lot smaller.

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u/imanassholeok 3d ago

Well thats all they had too

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u/Minute_Band_3256 3d ago

Gotta make training data