Brought to mind the work of Hod Lipson in which he generated formulae from experimental data. Detail in Mark Stevenson's book, An Optimists Tour of the Future. One instance, a perfect formula was generated. No idea what it meant, Lipson: "Like explaining Shakespeare to a dog".
Regarding AI “curing all our diseases” happy talk—I’m not at all convinced that more scientific discoveries (especially those we don’t understand) will necessarily be beneficial for humans. Some discoveries may be inherently destabilizing.
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