The first scientist that looks at the output from such a program will probably
get credit.
;-)

--- On Wed, 4/8/09, William Ragans <dfused@...> wrote:
From: William Ragans <dfused@...>
Subject: Re: [undernetphysics] Computer program replacing scientists?
To: undernetphysics@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wednesday, April 8, 2009, 6:07 AM












Regarding that article, I have a question for those reading:

How do you think that this type of technology will affect our scientific

processes and will it affect what we focus OUR brains on.



Just trying to spark up some discussion. =)



ZapperZ wrote:

>

>

> Not sure if you have seen this news report and also the paper in

> science, but this might be interesting.

>

> http://www.nytimes. com/2009/ 04/07/science/ 07robot.html? ref=technology

> <http://www.nytimes. com/2009/ 04/07/science/ 07robot.html? ref=technology>

>

> "In an article in Friday's issue of the journal Science, two Cornell

> scientists describe a computer program that sifts raw and imperfect data

> to uncover fundamental laws of nature. The achievement could mean that

> insights that once emerged from the genius of scientists like Isaac

> Newton might now pop out of computers like, perhaps, the Hal 9000 in

> "2001: A Space Odyssey."

> .

> .

> In the same issue of Science, scientists in Britain describe building a

> robot that can not only devise a hypothesis but can also run and analyze

> experiments to test the hypothesis."

>

> Zz.

>

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