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David Romm Jul 23 2010 Status: New

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Recent technological innovations in artificial intelligence (AI) have helped scientists sift through more information faster and with greater ease. Mathematical biologist, Andrey Rzhetsky at the University of Chicago has used the AI PubMed database to analyze millions of papers at once. The research includes 368,000 full text articles and 8,000,000 article abstracts. Scientist Hod Lipson, at the University of Chicago has come up with a program called Eureqa that finds equations to fit data.

Rhetsky believes the future of AI is in research and development, rather than hypothesizing. His skepticism of the Eureqa software is that it does not take outliers into account which could be crucial to accurately interpreting the data set. He believes hypothesizing is a creative feature unique to the human mind. Do you agree with Rhetsky that AI is better used for analyzing a myriad of texts?