AI Designs Quantum Physics Experiments Beyond What Any Human Has Conceived

Scientific American ^ | 7/2/2021 | Anil Ananthaswamy

[fhayek]

"Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer true..".

"Open the pod bay door Melvin..."

[Kevmo]

There was some speculation from several years ago that Google’s interest in LENR was driven by their own AI engine they had been developing.

[Captain Compassion]

I, for one , welcome our new AI overlords.

[wally_bert]

If they are like Red Dwarf’s Holly, ok.

[rustyboots]

“Open the pod bay door, HAL”

[webheart]

Scientific American reads like a romance novel. “Mario Krenn recalls sitting at a cafe in Vienna” poring over computer printouts. What the f ever. Just tell us about the quantum entanglement thingy.

There is no artificial intelligence here, even though the writer of prose says it is. If it was artificial intelligence, it would say, hey Mario, here is a solution that you hadn’t thought of. But it didn’t. It printed out a bunch of paper that poor Mario had to pore over.

It’s a computer program. Algorithms are like instructions, they do whatever they are written to do. Given enough variability, they can do unexpected things. They can be long and complex. This does not make them intelligent, artificial or otherwise. Supercomputers are very fast at processing calculations and executing instructions. The reason they aren’t intelligent is because they don’t have the processing power of even a small rodent.

[Pollard]

What could go wrong?

[HKMk23]

“...they had fabricated the entire setup on a single photonic chip and performed the experiment. The researchers collected data for more than 16 hours: a feat made possible because of the photonic chip’s incredible optical stability, something that would have been impossible to achieve in a larger-scale tabletop experiment.”

THAT is a nugget that makes reading the entire piece worthwhile for those doing “hard” experimentation.

Achieving, and then maintaining, optical stability at the level of microns, and smaller, is a principal bugbear of the design of experimental equipment used in photon science.

[equaviator]

So experi-MENTAL!

[equaviator]

Even better- “experi-MEN-tal”...to clearly be un-PC!

[Mariner]

Tools to enable human conceptual understanding.

Powerful tools.

They will enable humans to conceive even better tools.

[TexasGator]

“Algorithms are like instructions, they do whatever they are written to do. Given enough variability, they can do unexpected things. “

If they only do what they are expected to do how can they do the unexpected?

[TexasGator]

“There was some speculation from several years ago that Google’s interest in LENR was driven by their own AI engine they had been developing.”

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevensalzberg/2019/06/10/google-ran-a-secret-experiment-to-search-for-cold-fusion-did-they-find-it/?sh=4be2325256fc

Google Ran A Secret Experiment To Search For Cold Fusion. Did They Find It?

Unfortunately for Pons and Fleischmann, whose reputations were forever tarnished, the 1989 experiments were fatally flawed. Many scientists tried to reproduce the results, but they all failed, and the criticism mounted quickly. Pons and Fleischmann never published their findings*, and cold fusion later became a meme for flawed or impossible scientific results. Even today, calling something “cold fusion” is form of ridicule.

[Bookshelf]

This Luddite simply asks, “so what?”

[Organic Panic]

And already pornographers are lined up

[SunkenCiv]

This topic was posted 7/10/2021, thanks LibWhacker.

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[BenLurkin]

“Krenn...had not explicitly provided MELVIN the rules needed to generate such complex states, yet it had found a way.”

Yikes!

[Reily]

I don’t find this as proof of intelligence I just see this as proof that computers can extrapolate over large amounts of data.

[steve86]

Denial of a human-like or even superior intelligence is going to look increasingly foolish over time.