Hod Lipson at Cornell University’s Computational Synthesis Lab developed software that derives scientific laws from raw data. By…

“Hod Lipson at Cornell University’s Computational Synthesis Lab developed software that derives scientific laws from raw data. By observing a double pendulum swinging, it rediscovered many of Newton’s laws of physics. The “scientist” was a genetic algorithm. It started with crude guesses about the equations governing the pendulum, combined the best parts of those equations, and many generations later output physical laws, such as the conservation of energy.”

– Barrat, James. Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era. New York: Thomas Dunne, 2013. (viacarvalhais)