While AI excels at induction and deduction, it cannot perform "abduction"—the creative leap to generate new explanatory hypotheses, a crucial element in cognitive breakthroughs.
Artificial intelligences generate images, write code and solve complex problems. But do they actually produce something new? For Tom Zahavy, a Google DeepMind researcher, today's models are still incapable of intellectual "jumping" that makes it possible to formulate an unprecedented idea.