alt Hacker NewsIf training data are purely historical, then how does the human look forward?
Seems to me not impossible that given current knowledge, AI generate one nugget more of knowledge (eg a proof of Navier Stokes), and given current knowledge + the nugget, generate yet some more new knowledge.
Not a given, but not obviously impossible either.
> how does the human look forward
Well, through the metaphysical lens that has both powered innovation and stumped the Really Smart Types since antiquity.