The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering & Medicine guide America’s federal research policies based on identifying challenges in the field. This 2024 workshop looked at opportunities within scientific research for artificial intelligence (AI) to contribute. It was led by national experts discussing use cases in their research and attempted to generalize based on those experiences. Most use cases were from American-based science, but AI in Africa was a recurring theme.
Overall, the abundance of unique use cases makes this book an interesting read. For example, they discussed how AI cannot really “get” a concept but instead uses pattern recognition to identify the concept. If the pattern is thrown slightly off, the identification can in turn be thrown off. Thus, AI, at present, cannot really be taught science. It’s more of a data analyst than a conceptual thinker.
AI is going to offer opportunities for just about every field of knowledge – if it isn’t already. Science is no different. This book offers a short investigative tool to predict how the sciences might be impacted. Ethics will also be impacted, but no one is exactly sure how yet. This book offers a short resource to review the scientific work already being done to get up to speed on how it might affect your work and knowledge domain.
AI for Scientific Discovery: Proceedings of a Workshop
Compiled by Robert Pool
Copyright (c) 2024
National Academies Press
ISBN 9780309714976
Page Count: 68
Genre: Artificial Intelligence
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