AI is creating ‘overly compliant helpers,’ not revolutionaries, said the top scientist at Hugging Face

• Thomas Wolf said AI excels at following instructions but struggles to create new knowledge.
• AI needs to question its training data and take counterintuitive approaches, the Hugging Face exec wrote on X.
• Wolf’s comments come as tech focuses on agentic AI.

AI excels at following instructions — but it’s not pushing the boundaries of knowledge, said Thomas Wolf.

The chief science officer and cofounder of Hugging Face, an open-source AI company…