Thought experiment: could an AI trained only on 18th-century knowledge make post-1800 discoveries?
bearthesailor · reddit · 2026-11-11
A Redditor proposes a thought experiment: train an AI on facts known only in the 18th century and see whether it can independently reproduce discoveries humans made afterward — at least in math — using AI as an 'experiment monkey' to test whether models merely recite knowledge or can genuinely reason toward new findings.
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