Adam and Eve AI’s. The pair are designed such that they can automatically generate large numbers of hypothesis, design experiments that could falsify the maximum possible number of hypothesis and then run those experiments in an automated lab.
Rather than being designed to do X with yeast it’s basically told “go look at yeast” and then develops hypothesis about yeast and yeast biology and it successfully re-discovered a number of elements of cell biology. Later iterations were given access to databases of already known genetic information and discovered new information about a number of genes .
It’s a remarkable system and could be extremely useful for scientists in many sectors but it’s a 1.1 on the 1 to 10 scale where 10 is a credible paperclipper or Culture-Mind style AI.
This AI is not a pianist robot and doesn’t play chess but has broad potential applications across many areas of science.
It blows a hole in the side of the “Universal Knowledge Creator” idea since it’s a knowledge creator beyond most humans in a number of areas but but is never going to be controlling a pianist robot or running a nail salon because the belief that there’s some magical UKC line or category (which humans technically don’t qualify for yet anyway) is based on literally nothing except feelings. there’s not an ounce of logic or evidence behind it.
Adam and Eve AI’s. The pair are designed such that they can automatically generate large numbers of hypothesis, design experiments that could falsify the maximum possible number of hypothesis and then run those experiments in an automated lab.
Rather than being designed to do X with yeast it’s basically told “go look at yeast” and then develops hypothesis about yeast and yeast biology and it successfully re-discovered a number of elements of cell biology. Later iterations were given access to databases of already known genetic information and discovered new information about a number of genes .
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2009/04/1st-artificially-intelligent-adam-and-eve-created.html
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16890-robot-scientist-makes-discoveries-without-human-help/
It’s a remarkable system and could be extremely useful for scientists in many sectors but it’s a 1.1 on the 1 to 10 scale where 10 is a credible paperclipper or Culture-Mind style AI.
This AI is not a pianist robot and doesn’t play chess but has broad potential applications across many areas of science.
It blows a hole in the side of the “Universal Knowledge Creator” idea since it’s a knowledge creator beyond most humans in a number of areas but but is never going to be controlling a pianist robot or running a nail salon because the belief that there’s some magical UKC line or category (which humans technically don’t qualify for yet anyway) is based on literally nothing except feelings. there’s not an ounce of logic or evidence behind it.