Article When AIs do science it will be strange and incomprehensible

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EXCERPT: The late philosopher Paul Humphreys called this the ‘hybrid scenario’ of science: where parts of the scientific process are outsourced to computers. However, he also suggested that this could change.

Even though he began writing about these ideas more than a decade ago, long before the rise of generative artificial intelligence (AI), Humphreys had the foresight to recognise that the days of humans leading the scientific process may be numbered. He identified a later phase of science – what he called the ‘automated scenario’, where computers take over science completely. In this future, the computational capacities for scientific reasoning, data processing, model-making and theorising would far surpass our own abilities to the point that we humans are no longer needed. The machines would carry on the scientific work we once started, taking our theories to new and unforeseen heights.

According to some sources, the end of human epistemic dominance over science is on the horizon... (MORE - details)

[stryder]

Consider that our Sciences are still trying to understand our universe from our observation point, perhaps it should be considered that the only incomprehensible nature of ASI (Artificial Scientific Intelligence) would be down to not being the Observer.

A way around this problem would actually be to use BCI's (Brain Computer Interfacing) to have a symbiotic relationship with the ASI, so that a Human observer would be part of the science the ASI does. This does however mean that while a human might awe at the hallucinations put before them from the ASI, the ASI would also likely draw as much from the Human.

(AGI and BCI's are powerful when combined symbiotically but are also the most dangerous combination as it could lead to actual Mind Control in the wrong hands, especially if the BCI's extend beyond being short range.)

[Magical Realist]

The whole scientific enterprise of understanding the universe and reality will evolve with AI to a point where it is not even recognizable any more. How we used to understand will have faded into our primitive past being replaced with an immediate grasp of absolute logical necessity in any event. After that point no more questions will be possible, ushering in an age of literally infinitely creative magic.