Watch out grad. students...
I was checking out my feeds this morning and this one caught my eye:
I immediately thought, “There are robot scientists?” I then collapsed into an inner monologue that centered on the fact that there are robot scientists that I didn’t know about and wondering which of the many scientists I have met over the years were indeed robots. Don’t get me wrong, I am not very surprised. I mean, have you met many scientists? It makes sense. I was more intrigued that this fact had made it to the popular media and the cover was about to be blown off the entire thing.
Obviously, I clicked through. The results scared me more than robot scientists did, which for the record, they do not.
Somegeniuses idiots make a robot that does science. There are lots of robots that do science, my lab has two, but the problem is they gave this robot the ability to think. I really hope that they gave it a heart too otherwise we might be living i, Robot soon. This would not be good.
What the hell? Isn’t this what I have been doing for the last 19 years? Learning how to reason, formulate theories, and discovering scientific knowledge on my own? Uhg. I wish I had known this was going to happen because I would have done something else with my life and then bought this robot and become a scientist overnight. It makes this whole PhD thing seem like a waste of time.
So the question is, does it work?
So, what you are telling me is that this robot was able to derive the Newton Laws from first principles all by itself? What a waste of time those two semesters of physics I took were. I also bet the robot has more personality than a lot of biophysicists I know (babump chhhhhh, I will be here all night).
It seems as though grad. students are about to become obsolete and the tool of the past. I don’t blame the PIs, I would spend the money on a robot that probably does what I do and does a better job of it.
Plus, as my boss would say, “It can’t get pregnant.” I hope they didn’t build this feature in!
It does seem like my job is safe for a little while though.
Hopefully by the time I become a PI these things will make everything I do automated and I can sip mixed drinks on the beach somewhere and run my entire lab though my iPhone. Here’s to hoping!
Original article can be found here.
Robot scientists can think for themselves.
I immediately thought, “There are robot scientists?” I then collapsed into an inner monologue that centered on the fact that there are robot scientists that I didn’t know about and wondering which of the many scientists I have met over the years were indeed robots. Don’t get me wrong, I am not very surprised. I mean, have you met many scientists? It makes sense. I was more intrigued that this fact had made it to the popular media and the cover was about to be blown off the entire thing.
Obviously, I clicked through. The results scared me more than robot scientists did, which for the record, they do not.
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Two teams of researchers said on Thursday they had created machines that could reason, formulate theories and discover scientific knowledge on their own, marking a major advance in the field of artificial intelligence.
What the hell? Isn’t this what I have been doing for the last 19 years? Learning how to reason, formulate theories, and discovering scientific knowledge on my own? Uhg. I wish I had known this was going to happen because I would have done something else with my life and then bought this robot and become a scientist overnight. It makes this whole PhD thing seem like a waste of time.
So the question is, does it work?
Just by crunching the numbers -- and without any prior instruction in physics -- the Cornell machine was able to decipher Isaac Newton's laws of motion and other properties.
So, what you are telling me is that this robot was able to derive the Newton Laws from first principles all by itself? What a waste of time those two semesters of physics I took were. I also bet the robot has more personality than a lot of biophysicists I know (babump chhhhhh, I will be here all night).
It seems as though grad. students are about to become obsolete and the tool of the past. I don’t blame the PIs, I would spend the money on a robot that probably does what I do and does a better job of it.
Plus, as my boss would say, “It can’t get pregnant.” I hope they didn’t build this feature in!
It does seem like my job is safe for a little while though.
Lipson does not think robots will make scientists obsolete any day soon, but believes they could take over much of the routine work in research laboratories.
Hopefully by the time I become a PI these things will make everything I do automated and I can sip mixed drinks on the beach somewhere and run my entire lab though my iPhone. Here’s to hoping!
Original article can be found here.