Stephen Wolfram: Can AI Solve Science?

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Stephen Wolfram wrote an article about the role of AI in science.

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2024/03/can-ai-solve-science/

His conclusion:
Stephen Wolfram said:
So what should we expect for AI in science going forward? We’ve got in a sense a new—and rather human-like—way of leveraging computational reducibility. It’s a new tool for doing science, destined to have many practical uses. In terms of fundamental potential for discovery, though, it pales in comparison to what we can build from the computational paradigm, and from irreducible computations that we do. But probably what will give us the greatest opportunity to move science forward is to combine the strengths of AI and of the formal computational paradigm. Which, yes, is part of what we’ve been vigorously pursuing in recent years with the Wolfram Language and its connections to machine learning and now LLMs.
 
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AI will at first have trouble with science, because science has different fields with different terminology, assumptions and applications. The change will come when AI finds a reliable solid foundation, and begins to span multiple fields, something mere mortals cannot do in a single lifetime.
 

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