Two interesting articles in Science: The Automation of Science is about a robotic system that autonomously generated functional genomic hypotheses about a yeast. The second article, Distilling Free-Form Natural Laws from Experimental Data, is about a system learning from physics experiments and deriving a hypothesis from the data (this is along the lines of the general idea I’ve written about in the past). Cool stuff.
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Older, but still pretty interesting: “A new theorem in particle physics enabled by machine discovery”.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0004-3702(95)00128-X
The note reports a novel finding in particle physics that was enabled by a machine discovery program.