• Frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    16 hours ago

    This one probably will happen.

    The reason is that there are certain fields where you have to sift through massive amounts of data to find the thing you’re looking for. This is an ideal task for machine learning. It’s not going to replace real scientists, and it sure as hell shouldn’t replace peer review. It’s a tool with a use.

    As one example, the longest known black hole jet was recently discovered using ML techniques: https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/gargantuan-black-hole-jets-are-biggest-seen-yet