How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing Science

MACHINE LEARNING   How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing Science By  DAN FALK The latest AI algorithms are probing the evolution of galaxies, calculating quantum wave functions, discovering new chemical compounds and more. Is there anything that scientists do that can’t be automated? Read the article

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE(2018)   Why Artificial Intelligence Has Trouble With the Real World By  JOSHUA SOKOL The latest artificial intelligence systems start from zero knowledge of a game and grow to world-beating in a matter of hours. But researchers are struggling to apply these systems beyond the arcade. Read the article Q&A(2018)   To Build Truly Intelligent Machines, Teach Them Cause and Effect By   KEVIN HARTNETT Judea Pearl, a pioneering figure in artificial intelligence, argues that AI has been stuck in a decades-long rut. His prescription for progress? Teach machines to understand the question why. Read the interview

MATHEMATICAL BIOLOGY   The Math That Tells Cells What They Are By  JORDANA CEPELEWICZ During development, cells seem to decode their fate through optimal information processing, which could hint at a more general principle of life.  Read the article INFORMATION THEORY (2017)   How Life (and Death) Spring From Disorder By  PHILIP BALL Read the article GEOMETRY    Math Duo Maps the Infinite Terrain of Minimal Surfaces By  ERICA KLARREICH A pair of mathematicians has built on an obscure, 30-year-old mathematical theory to show that soap-filmlike minimal surfaces appear abundantly in a wide range of shapes.  Read the article GEOMETRY (2017)   3-D Fractals Offer Clues to Complex Systems By  KEVIN HARTNETT Read the article QUANTIZED ACADEMY    Where Proof, Evidence and Imagination Intersect By  PATRICK HONNER In mathematics, where proofs are everything, evidence is important too. But evidence is only as good as the model, and modeling can be dangerous business. So how much evidence is enough?  Read the column NUMBER THEORY(2018)   Without a Proof, Mathematicians Wonder How Much Evidence Is Enough By  KEVIN HARTNETT Read the article PODCAST    A New World’s Extraordinary Orbit Points to Planet Nine Astronomers argue that there’s an undiscovered giant planet far beyond the orbit of Neptune. A newly discovered rocky body has added evidence to the circumstantial case for it.  Listen to the podcast

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