An AI would probably flag that idea as unlikely and not worth pursuing. I don’t think we are that far off from having AIs that can read and incorporate the con

An AI would probably flag that idea as unlikely and not worth pursuing. I don’t think we are that far off from having AIs that can read and incorporate the concepts from every paper ever published and start generating random ideas that fit into an internal framework it develops. I think that within the lifetime of some readers here, an AI will spit out a hypothesis (like a method for producing a room temperature super conductor) that turns out to be true and we will have no idea where it came from. The AI’s knowledge of physics, chemistry, etc… will exceed ours and it trying to explain to us how it works would be like you explaining a singular value decomposition to your dog.