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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)

submitted 7 months ago by Lugh to c/futurology

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[–] zifk@sh.itjust.works 25 points 7 months ago (7 children)

No part of this article involves AI making independent discoveries. The researchers used ML to map muscle contractions to wing motion.

It's interesting, but a far stretch from what OP wrote for the title.

[–] Lugh 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

No part of this article involves AI making independent discoveries.

My reading of this is the opposite.

Although there were competing hypothesis, nobody knew how insect wing hinge mechanisms worked. Now they do, and the fundamental insight was provided via AI.

I think this is both a fundamental discovery, and one we can attribute to the AI, more than the humans involved.

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

The “insight” provided is useless theory without testing or humans checking it over, so why not credit robotics with this discovery instead of/in addition to AI if you’re hellbent on removing people from the process?

[–] Evil_incarnate@lemm.ee 8 points 7 months ago

Yeah, don't anthropomorphize computers, they hate that.

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