AI is more likely to create a generation of ‘yes-men on servers’ than any scientific breakthroughs, Hugging Face co-founder says

• Hugging Face’s co-founder, Thomas Wolf, is pouring cold water on the 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 says we may be creating a generation of digital “yes-men.”

Hugging Face’s top scientist, Thomas Wolf,...