Nobel-Winning Physics Experiment Recreated by AI...In One Hour

Physicists may soon join the ranks of the unemployed due to artificial intelligence (AI). Australian physicists have created an AI that can run and even improve a complex physics experiment with little oversight. They've automated an experiment creating an extremely cold gas trapped in a laser beam, known as a Bose-Einstein condensate. Bose-Einstein condensates are some of the coldest objects in the Universe, far colder than outer space--typically less than a billionth of a degree above absolute zero. They are extremely sensitive to external disturbances, which allows them to make very precise measurements such as tiny changes in the Earth's magnetic field or gravity.