Computer Program Self-Discovers Laws of Physics

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Not only are computers making new scientific discoveries on their own, they are apparently also rediscovering old ones. Wired:

In just over a day, a powerful computer program accomplished a feat that took physicists centuries to complete: extrapolating the laws of motion from a pendulum’s swings. (…)

The program started with near-random combinations of basic mathematical processes — addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and a few algebraic operators.

Initially, the equations generated by the program failed to explain the data, but some failures were slightly less wrong than others. Using a genetic algorithm, the program modified the most promising failures, tested them again, chose the best, and repeated the process until a set of equations evolved to describe the systems. Turns out, some of these equations were very familiar: the law of conservation of momentum, and Newton’s second law of motion.

AHHHHHH….. the computers are learning!!!! Robot take over is inevitable

Source: science
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    Yep, it won’t be long now before we’re running from the Cylons (hell, my iPhone is already better than me).
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    AHHHHHH….. the...learning!!!! Robot take over is inevitable
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    I’ve seen this movie, it ends poorly for humanity…
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