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Are pipettes or vials scientists? Computers are tools like hammers, and have equal agency. There are no nonhuman scientists.

• kleer001 4y ago
  Thank you. All this airy fairy talk of Ai is fun, but at the end of the day it's an inert tool (or toy) without human interaction.
  • rhn_mk1 4y ago
    For now.
    • bombolo 4y ago
      And for foreseeable future.
• danuker 4y ago
  If a developer codes up an AI to scour the web, write an article, and submit it to a scientific journal without letting the developer see the article, is the developer doing science? If someone trains a translation model between languages they don't know, is that someone a translator? I guess the users of said model would be "translators" as they would be doing the translation (without necessarily knowing the languages either).
  • reillyse 4y ago
    unsure if anyone is "doing science". Doing science is applying the scientific method. Making conjectures, deriving predictions from the hypotheses as logical consequences, and then carrying out experiments or empirical observations based on those predictions. Not sure AI is up to that, and it's debatable if it'll ever be able to make and test conjectures. There is a difference between symbol manipulation (like outputting text) and actual conjecture.
    • danuker 4y ago
      > and it's debatable if it'll ever be able to make and test conjectures https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_Scientist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_Scientist Adam is capable of: - hypothesizing to explain observations
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