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AI more likely to create 'yes-men on servers' than any scientific breakthroughs


Hugging Face cofounder Thomas Wolf is pouring cold water on hopes that current AI systems could revolutionize scientific progress.

Hugging Face cofounder Thomas Wolf is pouring cold water on hopes that current AI systems could revolutionize scientific progress. Speaking to Fortune at VivaTech in Paris, Wolf argued that today’s large language models excel at producing plausible answers but lack the creativity to ask original scientific questions. Speaking to Fortune at Viva Technology in Paris, the Hugging Face cofounder said that while large language models (LLMs) have shown an impressive ability to find answers to questions, they fall short when trying to ask the right ones—something Wolf sees as the more complex part of true scientific progress.

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