- AI excels at passing exams and finding answers, achieving superhuman results on tests like Humanity's Last Exam and the International Math Olympiad.
- AI contributes to scientific discoveries (e.g., AlphaFold, GNoME) but only when humans decide which questions to ask; it has not independently chosen important questions.
- The contradiction between AI's superb answer-finding and lack of question-posing is resolved by recognizing that all benchmarks measure only answer-finding, not question-choosing.
- Historical breakthroughs like Einstein's theory of relativity came from questioning existing assumptions, not just better answer-finding.