> But I have a hard time thinking about how the AI techniques could produce novel, surprising outcomes like this one The comparison is not equivalent as a huma

> But I have a hard time thinking about how the AI techniques could produce novel, surprising outcomes like this one The comparison is not equivalent as a human isolated from the environment and unable to perform experiments would fair the same. It is through conducting experiments that we make discoveries. Once AI can hypothesize and run experiments from start to finish I see no reason why novel discoveries won't be made this way.