AI May Soon Make Scientific Breakthroughs Nobody Can Explain, warns AI commentator
VraserX · x · 2026-10-21
VraserX sketches a strange future where AI makes scientific discoveries so far beyond human understanding that no one can explain why they work.
His thought experiment: a treatment rigorously proven to cure a disease, whose underlying theory won't be understood for another 50 years. Science, he concludes, is about to get very strange.
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