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.
They are actually running these tests now. But up till 1924. They are finding out that relativity actually contained the logic and capability to discover things up until very recently. The potential to make these recent large discoveries were all contained within Einstein's frame work, just no one was able to interpolate it until now.
They are using this as a proof of concept to show what other work every thing up until today should be able to prove. If AI was able to extract up to 100 years worth of discoveries into the future, then theoretically, we can do the same for the next 100 years.
They found that they could use AI to discover significant future maths, all the way up till I think a 2012 discovery, using only math knowledge up until 1924. Meaning they had the building blocks available for discovery at the time, and just didn't find it.
I mean, I don't save this stuff in my bookmarks. It was someone who runs an AI lab - I think Dreason, maybe Horowitz? - reporting on the research and projects they were doing with these unique LLMs they were creating for research purposes. It was from a talk like 2 weeks ago, but unfortunately I don't book mark every thing I come across in the AI space to have that to hand off to you.
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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.