Apr 21, 2025 06:32 PM
“Scientists don’t yet fully understand” these intriguing new gravitational wave detectors designed by AI
https://thedebrief.org/scientists-dont-y...ned-by-ai/
EXCERPTS: A series of promising designs for new gravitational wave detectors have been developed with a helping hand from artificial intelligence, which have left scientists with new questions about the cosmos.
Urania, an AI developed by a team led by Dr. Mario Krenn of the Artificial Scientist Lab at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, produced the new detector designs, which they say have already shown promise to exceed the capabilities of existing human-made concepts.
[...] The team’s results could mark the beginning of a future where intelligent machines commonly produce new discoveries about our cosmos, leaving the remaining job of interpreting them to humans.
[...] While much of Urania’s concepts revealed known processes upon analysis, some of the AI’s designs were very unconventional, and suggested new applications that scientists don’t yet fully understand, and which may potentially help shape the next generation of detector technology.
"We are in an era where machines can discover new super-human solutions in science, and the task of humans is to understand what the machine has done,” Krenn said of the work his team and Urania have accomplished. [...] The team published their findings in a paper, “Digital Discovery of Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detectors,” published in Physical Review X on April 11, 2025... (MORE - missing details)
https://thedebrief.org/scientists-dont-y...ned-by-ai/
EXCERPTS: A series of promising designs for new gravitational wave detectors have been developed with a helping hand from artificial intelligence, which have left scientists with new questions about the cosmos.
Urania, an AI developed by a team led by Dr. Mario Krenn of the Artificial Scientist Lab at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, produced the new detector designs, which they say have already shown promise to exceed the capabilities of existing human-made concepts.
[...] The team’s results could mark the beginning of a future where intelligent machines commonly produce new discoveries about our cosmos, leaving the remaining job of interpreting them to humans.
[...] While much of Urania’s concepts revealed known processes upon analysis, some of the AI’s designs were very unconventional, and suggested new applications that scientists don’t yet fully understand, and which may potentially help shape the next generation of detector technology.
"We are in an era where machines can discover new super-human solutions in science, and the task of humans is to understand what the machine has done,” Krenn said of the work his team and Urania have accomplished. [...] The team published their findings in a paper, “Digital Discovery of Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detectors,” published in Physical Review X on April 11, 2025... (MORE - missing details)