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Hugging Face’s chief science officer worries AI is becoming ‘yes-men on servers’


Hugging Face co-founder and chief science officer Thomas Wolf thinks that AI today isn't capable of figuring out novel solutions like a human.

Wolf’s problem with AI today — and where he thinks the technology is heading — is that it doesn’t generate any new knowledge by connecting previously unrelated facts. Wolf thinks that AI labs are building what are essentially “very obedient students” — not scientific revolutionaries in any sense of the phrase. He points to benchmarks commonly used to measure AI system improvements, most of which consist of questions that have clear, obvious, and “close-ended” answers.

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