Both of the artificial intelligence systems are still relatively slow to learn, however. The Cornell computer took 30 to 40 hours of powerful processing to derive the laws of motion. Adam took three months to discover the 12 new gene functions, although it was working on other projects as well during the same time. Nonetheless, the advanced artificial intelligence systems developed by U.K. and U.S. researchers, while still on the slow side, will increase the amount of scientific research that can be done, says David Waltz, a professor at Columbia University who was not involved with the Science study. "We have vastly more data that we can gather and vastly more powerful machines that we can work on it with and we must create more storage to save them," said Waltz. "We are able to now build systems that can explore scientific hypothesis largely independently, rather than have people examine it by eye or by mathematical methods." All this means is that the jobs of graduate students and post-docs across the world are safe, assures King, at least for the next 10-20 years. Related Links: |
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