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AI is starting to make independent discoveries in basic science, as shown by AI's recent discoveries in how insect wings work. (www.nature.com)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

A lot of talk of AI tends to revolve around who is doing best in league tables and Silicon Valley chatter, meanwhile the truly significant is happening elsewhere. AI making independent breakthroughs like this has far greater long-term significance.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

There is nothing remotely independent about it. Researchers used ml to process the data, but setting that all up is very intentional and manually done by humans, and has been used for decades now. I don't know if you edited the title or if they did, but either way you didn't read the article.