The key gap: AI solves well-defined math, but science doesn't know its questions

LucaAmb · x · 2026-09-13

Commenter curiouswavefn highlights a fundamental difference between AI solving math problems and humans doing science more broadly: in science, we often don't even know exactly what problem to solve — touching on the core bottleneck of AI for Science.

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