Will AI Save Physics? Probably not.

Hossenfelder is skeptical. 1) It's unlikely that AI will achieve breakthroughs by analyzing data. Why? because we don't have much data on the phenomena of greatest interest. 2) Perhaps there's something to be done in analyzing the published literature, but she's skeptical about that. Why? Because the current literature, though huge, consists mostly of recycling the same ideas (the ones that don't work). 3) Then there's theory development. Current systems aren't good at it because they need to be trained on something. You mean the current crop of "junk" theories? And future AI? Perhaps. But we need something better than logical AI.