If training data are purely historical, then how does the human look forward?
Seems to me not impossible that given current knowledge, AI generate one nugget more of knowledge (eg a proof of Navier Stokes), and given current knowledge + the nugget, generate yet some more new knowledge.
Not a given, but not obviously impossible either.
> how does the human look forward
Well, through the metaphysical lens that has both powered innovation and stumped the Really Smart Types since antiquity.