It was an AI system from the 80′s which was able to infer physical laws from data observations. It correctly inferred the ideal gas law from pressure/volume/temperature data, and some (all?) of Kepler’s laws from ground-based planetary observations.
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It was an AI system from the 80′s which was able to infer physical laws from data observations. It correctly inferred the ideal gas law from pressure/volume/temperature data, and some (all?) of Kepler’s laws from ground-based planetary observations.