Will Ideas or Algorithms Rule Science Tomorrow?
David Krakauer of the Santa Fe Institute offers an unsettling vision of future science as produced by machines that no one really understandsThe basic problem is that accepting on faith what we can’t ever hope to understand is not a traditional stance of science. Thus it’s a good question whether science could survive such a transition and still be recognizable to scientists. But does turning things over to incomprehensible algorithms, as Krakauer proposes, really work anyway? Current results from a variety of areas give pause for thought.
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