{"id":131838,"date":"2021-12-05T19:22:42","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T03:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/after-ais-mastered-go-and-super-mario-scientists-have-taught-them-how-to-play-experiments"},"modified":"2021-12-05T19:22:42","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T03:22:42","slug":"after-ais-mastered-go-and-super-mario-scientists-have-taught-them-how-to-play-experiments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/after-ais-mastered-go-and-super-mario-scientists-have-taught-them-how-to-play-experiments","title":{"rendered":"After AIs mastered Go and Super Mario, scientists have taught them how to \u2018play\u2019 experiments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by the mastery of artificial intelligence (AI) over games like Go and Super Mario, scientists at the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II) trained an AI agent \u2014 an autonomous computational program that observes and acts \u2014 how to conduct research experiments at superhuman levels by using the same approach. The Brookhaven team published their findings in the journal <em>Machine Learning: Science and Technology<\/em> and implemented the AI agent as part of the research capabilities at NSLS-II.<\/p>\n<p>As a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility located at DOE\u2019s Brookhaven National Laboratory, NSLS-II enables scientific studies by more than 2000 researchers each year, offering access to the facility\u2019s ultrabright x-rays. Scientists from all over the world come to the facility to advance their research in areas such as batteries, microelectronics, and drug development. However, time at NSLS-II\u2019s experimental stations \u2014 called beamlines \u2014 is hard to get because nearly three times as many researchers would like to use them as any one station can handle in a day \u2014 despite the facility\u2019s 24\/7 operations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince time at our facility is a precious resource, it is our responsibility to be good stewards of that; this means we need to find ways to use this resource more efficiently so that we can enable more science,\u201d said Daniel Olds, beamline scientist at NSLS-II and corresponding author of the study. \u201cOne bottleneck is us, the humans who are measuring the samples. We come up with an initial strategy, but adjust it on the fly during the measurement to ensure everything is running smoothly. But we can\u2019t watch the measurement all the time because we also need to eat, sleep and do more than just run the experiment.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by the mastery of artificial intelligence (AI) over games like Go and Super Mario, scientists at the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II) trained an AI agent \u2014 an autonomous computational program that observes and acts \u2014 how to conduct research experiments at superhuman levels by using the same approach. The Brookhaven team published [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131838","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}