Posted 12/15/2023, 4:02:00 PM
AI Speeds Scientific Breakthroughs But Lacks Explainability
- AI is assisting scientists in making new discoveries at an accelerated pace, like developing new drugs and understanding genetics and viruses
- But AI's inhuman ability to process huge amounts of data means it makes breakthroughs without explanation, calling into question the scientific method
- AI is transforming science rapidly across medicine, predicting storms, analyzing brain scans, and proposing new materials
- OpenAI and Axel Springer launched a deal to bring AI-written news into ChatGPT, suggesting the changing internet
- Musician Grimes is working on AI toys that can converse with children, with the goal of developing "pseudo consciousness"