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HYPOTHESIS GENERATION BY ROBOT. "Adam runs yeast genetics experiments and made international headlines two years ago by making a novel scientific discovery without direct human input. This allowed the computer to generate hypotheses, then design and conduct actual experiments to test them.” http://news.vanderbilt.edu/2011/10/robot-biologist/ View in LinkedIn

A PRIORI DEDUCTION. "When they fed the data into Eureqa, it derived a series of equations that were nearly identical to the known equations.” Breathtaking! http://news.vanderbilt.edu/2011/10/robot-biologist/ View in LinkedIn

EUREQA. “Biology is the area where the gap between theory and data is growing the most rapidly...So it is the area in greatest need of automation. The biological system that the researchers used to test ABE is glycolysis, the primary process that produces energy in a living cell.” http://news.vanderbilt.edu/2011/10/robot-biologist/ View in LinkedIn

STUNNING EXAMPLE. “One of Eureqa’s initial achievements was identifying the basic laws of motion by analyzing the motion of a double pendulum. What took Sir Isaac Newton years to discover, Eureqa did in a few hours when running on a personal computer.” Read this several times over, please. This is massive. http://news.vanderbilt.edu/2011/10/robot-biologist/ View in LinkedIn

AUTOMATING SCIENCE. “A major step toward this goal by demonstrating that a computer can analyze raw experimental data from a biological system and derive the basic mathematical equations that describe the way the system operates.” http://news.vanderbilt.edu/2011/10/robot-biologist/ View in LinkedIn

BIG RED HERRING. "What AI people are working towards is a conscious machine. And that until you have conscious machine, there's nothing to worry about. It's really a red herring." http://www.techinsider.io/artificial-intelligence-machine-consciousness-expert-stuart-russell-future-ai-2015-7 View in LinkedIn

QUALITY DECISIONS. "Now extrapolate from a chess board to the world, which in some sense is a bigger chess board. If human beings are losing every time, it doesn't matter whether they're losing to a conscious machine or an completely non conscious machine, they still lost. The singularity is about the quality of decision-making, which is not consciousness at all." http://www.techinsider.io/artificial-intelligence-machine-consciousness-expert-stuart-russell-future-ai-2015-7 View in LinkedIn