alt Hacker NewsI wonder if you could train an LLM with everything up to Einstein. Then see if with thought experiments + mathematics you could arrive at general relativity.
I wonder if you could train an LLM with everything up to Einstein. Then see if with thought experiments + mathematics you could arrive at general relativity.
The problem is that the 'genius' of Einstein wasn't just synthesizing existing data,but actively rejecting the axioms of that data. The 1875 corpus overwhelmingly 'proves' absolute time and the luminiferous aether. A model optimizing for the most probable continuation will converge on that consensus.
To get Relativity, the model needs to realize the training data isn't just incomplete, but fundamentally wrong. That requires abductive reasoning (the spark of genius) to jump out of the local minimum. Without that AGI-level spark, a 'pure knowledge pile' will just generate a very eloquent, mathematically rigorous defense of Newtonian physics.