Robot Makes Scientific Discovery All by Itself | Wired.Com
Friday, April 10th, 2009Advertisements
For the first time, a robotic system has made a novel scientific discovery with virtually no human intellectual input.
Scientists designed “Adam” to carry out the entire scientific process on its own: formulating hypotheses, designing and running experiments, analyzing data, and deciding which experiments to run next.
“It’s a major advance,” says David Waltz of the Center for Computational Learning Systems at Columbia University. “Science is being done here in a way that incorporates artificial intelligence. It’s automating a part of the scientific process that hasn’t been automated in the past.”
