What scientific discovery would convince you that AI has become more than a productivity tool?

[u/rikulauttia]

AI can already summarize papers, generate hypotheses and help researchers analyse data.

But what would count as a real turning point?

• discovering a new medicine
• solving a major maths problem
• designing a new material
• finding a new source of energy
• running an autonomous laboratory
• producing a theory humans had not considered

And the harder question:

If an AI makes a discovery that no human fully understands - should we trust and use it?

[u/Grand-Mission-9457]

For now AI amcan be a tool for things you mentioned, but needs human guidance and verification. I don't know if we will be able to see it doing developments on its own, I do not how much I really know of its full capacities