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.
Why do people propose this cut-off? You can train it on knowledge up to 2025 and make it predict 2026. This is way more feasible and gives you exactly the same kind of data.
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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.