The Physicist Working to Build Science-Literate AI
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Summary
Miles Cranmer wants artificial intelligence (AI) to help make scientific breakthroughs and speed up the current process.
Cranmer, who combines AI with his doctoral research in astrophysics at Princeton University, said the machine learning models lack “foundation models” that are designed for general scientific discovery.
To address this, Cranmer and more than 20 other scientists launched the Polymathic AI initiative at the start of this year to create foundation models equipped with scientific skills.
He said the advantage of these models is that they can generalise from new information and neural networks are unable to do this.
To address the lack of scientific data available for training, the team is turning scientific information into a format that can be used for training algorithms.
The next step will be to ensure results are explainable and of a high enough standard to be useful.
