[jprete]

Physics wants to open the black boxes until it can no longer figure out how to pry the remaining boxes open!

It's not useful to draw a false equivalence between AI-style "the model predicts, that's good enough" and science as a whole which cares very much about the underlying structure.

[nico]

Why are you assuming that people want to stop understanding the AI models?

If anything, AI researchers are digging deeper into the models too

And people in physics are starting to use AI tools to model physical phenomena

I think that it’s a never ending task to understand all the black boxes. Definitely not possible by a single person. But also at some level you get to circular references. There is no fixed point in the universe, there is no point 0 or origin that we can find. Everything is relative to something else

[hierophantical]

I mean how can we ever trust a microscope when the human eye can not see at that level of magnification?

What if the hammer gets angry and starts hitting us in the head? How can you not see the danger in getting hit in the head by a hammer?

This is all just short term noise and no one will ask these stupid questions soon enough. In the meantime, it makes for good theater on podcasts.