Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Whilst current models can't 'intuit' and come up with conjectures People keep saying this. Why? Surely the AI can complete the prompt “Generate new research questions based on these observations”? When I read the reasoning traces of coding models they are constantly asking themselves questions and attempting to answer them.
I like the illustration that the models are working on a convex hull of known information. Filling gaps with linear combinations of known facts and results. They can't exit the hull until the "intuition" starts spawning points outside the convex hull.
It's a convex hull of information that is reflective and spans outside of itself and combines in a new way, when you shine two known rays of light together from the inside.
Now it gets better. AI can be orders of magnitude more creative than any human could ever hope for, because his convex hull of information is orders of magnitude larger, and the possibilities for new combinations are equally larger.