About whether AI agents with physical-world feedback could invent things like humans do.
Has this happened?
Yes 13 (11%)Not sure 57 (47%)No 51 (42%)
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
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About whether AI agents with physical-world feedback could invent things like humans do.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
it seems highly likely that they will be able to "invent" things based on feedback they receive while working towards goals...
I don't think so. Imagine a model trained on data from an Internet that believes in hypothesis that earth is the center of the world. Even if you feed all the physical data, I don't think it can come up with the idea that all of its training data was wrong.
This might be also a good argument for why this LLMs are not "intelligent". You can feed contradicting training data all day and it will accept it without bating an eye. But that won't work with an entity that is truly intelligent.