It’s much easier to reverse engineer a solution that you don’t understand (and discover important underlying theories on that journey), than it is to arrive at that same solution and the underlying theories without knowing in advance where you are going.
For this reason, discoveries made by AI will be immensely useful for accelerating scientific progress, even if those discoveries are opaque at first.
For this reason, discoveries made by AI will be immensely useful for accelerating scientific progress, even if those discoveries are opaque at first.