Via Techcrunch:

Wolf thinks that AI labs are building what are essentially “very obedient students” — not scientific revolutionaries in any sense of the phrase. AI today isn’t incentivized to question and propose ideas that potentially go against its training data, he said, limiting it to answering known questions.

“To create an Einstein in a data center, we don’t just need a system that knows all the answers, but rather one that can ask questions nobody else has thought of or dared to ask,” Wolf said. “One that writes ‘What if everyone is wrong about this?’ when all textbooks, experts, and common knowledge suggest otherwise.” […]

“[T]he most crucial aspect of science [is] the skill to ask the right questions and to challenge even what one has learned,” Wolf said. “We don’t need an A+ [AI] student who can answer every question with general knowledge. We need a B student who sees and questions what everyone else missed.”

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