{"id":126788,"date":"2021-08-27T16:22:41","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T23:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/sonys-head-of-ai-research-wants-to-build-robots-that-can-win-a-nobel-prize"},"modified":"2021-08-27T16:22:41","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T23:22:41","slug":"sonys-head-of-ai-research-wants-to-build-robots-that-can-win-a-nobel-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/sonys-head-of-ai-research-wants-to-build-robots-that-can-win-a-nobel-prize","title":{"rendered":"Sony\u2019s head of AI research wants to build robots that can win a Nobel Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/sonys-head-of-ai-research-wants-to-build-robots-that-can-win-a-nobel-prize.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>AI and Machine Learning systems have proven a boon to scientific research in a variety of academic fields in recent years. They\u2019ve assisted scientists in ripe for cutting-edge treatments, of potent and, and even. Throughout this period, however, AI\/ML systems have often been relegated to simply processing large data sets and performing brute force computations, not leading the research themselves.<\/p>\n<p>But Dr. Hiroaki Kitano, CEO of Sony Computer Science Laboratories, \u201chybrid form of science that shall bring systems biology and other sciences into the next stage,\u201d by creating an AI that\u2019s just as capable as today\u2019s top scientific minds. To do so, Kitano seeks to launch the and.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe distinct characteristic of this challenge is to field the system into an open-ended domain to explore significant discoveries rather than rediscovering what we already know or trying to mimic speculated human thought processes,\u201d Kitano. \u201cThe vision is to reformulate scientific discovery itself and to create an alternative form of scientific discovery.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI and Machine Learning systems have proven a boon to scientific research in a variety of academic fields in recent years. They\u2019ve assisted scientists in ripe for cutting-edge treatments, of potent and, and even. Throughout this period, however, AI\/ML systems have often been relegated to simply processing large data sets and performing brute force computations, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}