Position: LLMs can't jump

Tom Zahavy's position paper argues that generative AI excels at induction and deduction but lacks the abductive leap needed to create novel scientific axioms. Using Einstein's formulation of general relativity as a case study, it proposes physically consistent, multimodal world models as a path toward artificial scientific invention.

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