Inspired by the mastery of artificial intelligence (AI) over games like Go and Super Mario, scientists have trained an AI agent – an autonomous computational program that observes and acts – how to conduct research experiments at superhuman levels by using the same approach. (1)
There you go.
Soon – even by the time you read this (because the news are a bit old) – computers will be conducting experiments like humans. And we will cry out in triumph. Without understanding that this actually means that we have been conducting experiments like computers all this time along…
Come. There is nothing for us to do tonight….
Turn off the light.
There are stars still shining in the night…
Oh, I wish a day will come when I will know nothing about what makes them so bright…
Poetic Philosophy 