AI Generates Hypotheses Human Scientists Have Not Thought Of
Blades, R. (2021). AI Generates Hypotheses Human Scientists Have Not Thought Of. Scientific American, https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ai-generates-hypotheses-human-scientists-have-not-thought-of/
“Creating hypotheses has long been a purely human domain. Now, though, scientists are beginning to ask machine learning to produce original insights. They are designing neural networks (a type of machine-learning setup with a structure inspired by the human brain) that suggest new hypotheses based on patterns the networks find in data instead of relying on human assumptions. Many fields may soon turn to the muse of machine learning in an attempt to speed up the scientific process and reduce human biases.”