Artificial Intelligence to Win the Nobel Prize and Beyond: Creating the Engine for Scientific Discovery

This article proposes a new grand challenge for AI: to develop an AI system that can make major scientific discoveries in biomedical sciences and that is worthy of a Nobel Prize. There are a series of human cognitive limitations that prevent us from making accelerated scientific discoveries, particu...

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Published inThe AI magazine Vol. 37; no. 1; pp. 39 - 49
Main Author Kitano, Hiroaki
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published La Canada American Association for Artificial Intelligence 22.03.2016
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Subjects
Artificial intelligence
Biomedical research
Civilization
Computer industry
International economic relations
Microcomputer industry
Nobel laureates
Nobel prizes
Nuclear power plants
Researchers
Science
Small business
Soccer
United States
New York
United States > US
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Summary:This article proposes a new grand challenge for AI: to develop an AI system that can make major scientific discoveries in biomedical sciences and that is worthy of a Nobel Prize. There are a series of human cognitive limitations that prevent us from making accelerated scientific discoveries, particularity in biomedical sciences. As a result, scientific discoveries are left at the level of a cottage industry. AI systems can transform scientific discoveries into highly efficient practices, thereby enabling us to expand our knowledge in unprecedented ways. Such systems may out‐compute all possible hypotheses and may redefine the nature of scientific intuition, hence the scientific discovery process.
ISSN:0738-4602
2371-9621
DOI:10.1609/aimag.v37i1.2642