What does it take to have a program come up with the theory of relativity, given the knowledge that was available in 1904? I think there are all kinds of reaso

What does it take to have a program come up with the theory of relativity, given the knowledge that was available in 1904? I think there are all kinds of reasoning skills that we've never been able to test, because they depend on perception and motor skills. It seems possible those would take many more computational resources. I find it hardly surprising that feeding a program abstractions and allowing it to reason about those abstractions is simple. It's the interacting with the real world, correlating abstractions with the real world and coming up with useful new abstractions, that's hard. I don't think we'll ever have an AI until something is built that can freely interact with the world, freely gather data and freely modify itself to enhance all its abilities. An AI without pressure sensors that ever touched sand will never understand the universe.