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Recent debates on artificial intelligence increasingly emphasise questions of AI consciousness and moral status, yet there remains little agreement on how such properties should be evaluated. In this paper, we argue that awareness offers a…

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In a post-ChatGPT world, this paper explores the potential of leveraging scalable artificial intelligence for scientific discovery. We propose that scaling up artificial intelligence on high-performance computing platforms is essential to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Wesley Brewer , Aditya Kashi , Sajal Dash , Aristeidis Tsaris , Junqi Yin , Mallikarjun Shankar , Feiyi Wang

There are two important things in science: (A) Finding answers to given questions, and (B) Coming up with good questions. Our artificial scientists not only learn to answer given questions, but also continually invent new questions, by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Vincent Herrmann , Louis Kirsch , Jürgen Schmidhuber

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used in scientific research and discovery, supporting tasks ranging from literature retrieval and synthesis to hypothesis generation, autonomous experimentation, and research evaluation.…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Haoxuan Zhang , Ruochi Li , Yang Zhang , Ting Xiao , Jiangping Chen , Junhua Ding , Haihua Chen

Artificial Intelligence has proven to be a transformative tool for advancing scientific research across a wide range of disciplines. However, a significant gap still exists between AI and scientific communities, limiting the full potential…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Yutong Xie , Yijun Pan , Hua Xu , Qiaozhu Mei

One goal of Artificial Intelligence is to learn meaningful representations for natural language expressions, but what this entails is not always clear. A variety of new linguistic behaviours present themselves embodied as computers,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Davide Nunes , Luis Antunes

Relentless progress in artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly raising concerns that machines will replace humans on the job market, and perhaps altogether. Eliezer Yudkowski and others have explored the possibility that a promising…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2016-02-12 Max Tegmark

To make deliberate progress towards more intelligent and more human-like artificial systems, we need to be following an appropriate feedback signal: we need to be able to define and evaluate intelligence in a way that enables comparisons…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-11-26 François Chollet

Phase transition from the human-limited, "analogue" way of research enquiry to the silicon-based, artificial intelligence (AI)-powered digital science is forthcoming. To facilitate this transition, I propose three project ideas: 1)…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2021-08-06 Angelina Lesnikova

While the relation between visualization and scientific understanding has been a topic of long-standing discussion, recent developments in physics have pushed the boundaries of this debate to new and still unexplored realms. For it is…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2018-07-10 Sebastian De Haro , Henk W. de Regt

Scientific discovery is poised for rapid advancement through advanced robotics and artificial intelligence. Current scientific practices face substantial limitations as manual experimentation remains time-consuming and resource-intensive,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Pengsong Zhang , Heng Zhang , Huazhe Xu , Renjun Xu , Zhenting Wang , Cong Wang , Animesh Garg , Zhibin Li , Arash Ajoudani , Xinyu Liu

The rapid assimilation of Artificial Intelligence technologies into various facets of society has created a significant educational imperative that current frameworks are failing to effectively address. We are witnessing the rise of a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Sri Yash Tadimalla , Justin Cary , Gordon Hull , Jordan Register , Daniel Maxwell , David Pugalee , Tina Heafner

The process of developing theories and models and testing them with experiments is fundamental to the scientific method. Automating the entire scientific method then requires not only automation of the induction of theories from data, but…

The ongoing artificial intelligence (AI) revolution has the potential to change almost every line of work. As AI capabilities continue to improve in accuracy, robustness, and reach, AI may outperform and even replace human experts across…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Jian Gao , Dashun Wang

To unleash the full potential of AI for Science, we must untether the agents from a purely digital environment. The agent's ability to control and explore in real-world labs is essential because the physical lab remains foundational to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Zhenning Yang , Yuhan Chen , Patrick Tser Jern Kon , Tongyuan Miao , Hongyi Lin , Venkat Viswanathan , Danai Koutra , Ang Chen

Meaning has been called the "holy grail" of a variety of scientific disciplines, ranging from linguistics to philosophy, psychology and the neurosciences. The field of Artifical Intelligence (AI) is very much a part of that list: the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-10-25 Douwe Kiela , Luana Bulat , Anita L. Vero , Stephen Clark

Artificial Intelligence is a field that lives many lives, and the term has come to encompass a motley collection of scientific and commercial endeavours. In this paper, I articulate the contours of a rather neglected but central scientific…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Dimitri Coelho Mollo

The field of artificial intelligence (AI) represents an enormous endeavour of humankind that is currently transforming our societies down to their very foundations. Its task, building truly intelligent systems, is underpinned by a vast…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-07-25 Alexander Serb , Themistoklis Prodromakis

Artificial Intelligence models are becoming increasingly more powerful and accurate, supporting or even replacing humans' decision making. But with increased power and accuracy also comes higher complexity, making it hard for users to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-07-10 Vivian S. Silva , André Freitas , Siegfried Handschuh

Article purpose is the analysis of a question of possibility of technologization of philosophical knowledge. We understand the organization of cognitive activity which is guided by the set of methods guaranteed bringing to successful (i.e.…

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