How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing Scienc

Traditionally, we've learned about nature through observation. Think of Johannes Kepler poring over Tycho Brahe's tables of planetary positions and trying to discern the underlying pattern. Science has also advanced through simulation. An astronomer might model the movement of the Milky Way and its neighboring galaxy, Andromeda, and predict that they'll collide in a few billion years. Both observation and simulation help scientists generate hypotheses that can then be tested with further observations. Generative modeling differs from both of these approaches.