Published Aug 10, 2026, 5:00 AM ET · Updated 3 months ago · 1 source
AI for science needs reasoning, not just data
MIT Technology Review
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Original Report
Every few decades, someone announces that science has reached its end. In 1903, the revered physicist Albert Michelson wrote that the “facts of physical science have all been discovered.” In the 1980s, Stephen Hawking predicted that theoretical physics might be finished by the end of the century. With the explosive arrival of artificial intelligence, the…