What Happens When AI Starts To Ask the Questions?
Technology has forever served as science’s toolbox. But now that AI is being used to develop questions and methods as well, some scientists wonder what their role is going to become. The post What Happens When AI Starts To Ask the Questions? first appeared on Quanta Magazine

When Mario Krenn was studying quantum physics at the University of Vienna, he was trained in a particular way of designing new experiments: “You go to a blackboard, and you think very hard,” he said. In 2014, Krenn was trying to come up with a way to observe a particular quantum state. A typical setup would involve sending a laser beam through a finely calibrated array of lenses…