1202.经济学人-How AI can revolutionise science-7（完结）

Governments and funding bodies could help by pressing for greater use of common standards to allow AI systems to exchange and interpret laboratory results and other data.

They could also fund more research into the integration of AI smarts with laboratory robotics, and into forms of AI beyond those being pursued in the private sector, which has bet nearly all its chips on language-based systems like Chatgpt.

Less fashionable forms of AI, such as model-based machine learning, may be better suited to scientific tasks such as forming hypotheses.

In 1665, during a period of rapid scientific progress, Robert Hooke, an English polymath, described the advent of new scientific instruments such as the microscope and telescope as “the adding of artificial organs to the natural”.

They let researchers explore previously inaccessible realms and discover things in new ways, “with prodigious benefit to all sorts of useful knowledge”.

For Hooke’s modern-day successors, the adding of artificial intelligence to the scientific toolkit is poised to do the same in the coming years—with similarly world-changing results.

这是《经济学人》2023年9月刊的一篇文章'How AI can revolutionise science'第10、11段。

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funding bodies:资助团体

政府和资助机构可以通过敦促更多地使用通用标准来提供帮助，以允许人工智能系统交换和解释实验室结果和其他数据。

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他们还可以资助更多研究，研究人工智能智慧与实验室机器人的集成，以及私营部门所追求的人工智能形式之外的研究，私营部门几乎将所有筹码都押在了Chatgpt等基于语言的系统上。

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不太流行的人工智能形式，例如基于模型的机器学习，可能更适合科学任务，例如形成假设。

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1665年，在科学飞速进步的时期，英国博学者Robert Hooke将显微镜和望远镜等新科学仪器的出现描述为“在自然中添加了人造器官”。

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它们让研究人员探索以前无法进入的领域，并以新的方式发现事物，“对各种有用的知识都有巨大的好处”。

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对于Hooke的现代继任者来说，将人工智能添加到科学工具包中有望在未来几年实现同样的效果，并产生类似的改变世界的结果。

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funding bodies:资助团体