- 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. Rather than building the next Einstein, Wolf said, we may be creating a generation of digital “yes-men.”
Hugging Face’s top scientist, Thomas Wolf, says current AI systems are unlikely to make the scientific discoveries some leading labs are hoping for.
