The AI scientist: Physicists create software that can carry out experiments on its own (and it's already recreated Nobel prize winning research)

It could be the moment scientists accidentally put themselves out of a job. Physicists have revealed artificial intelligence software was used to run a complex experiment. The experiment, developed by physicists from ANU and UNSW ADFA, created an extremely cold gas trapped in a laser beam, known as a Bose-Einstein condensate, replicating the experiment that won the 2001 Nobel Prize. The experiment created an extremely cold gas trapped in a laser beam, known as a Bose-Einstein condensate, replicating the experiment that won the 2001 Nobel Prize. Bose-Einstein condensates are some of the coldest places in the Universe, far colder than outer space, typically less than a billionth of a degree above absolute zero.