{"id":161978,"date":"2023-04-12T08:26:20","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T13:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/new-ai-scientist-combines-theory-and-data-to-discover-scientific-equations"},"modified":"2023-04-12T08:26:20","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T13:26:20","slug":"new-ai-scientist-combines-theory-and-data-to-discover-scientific-equations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/new-ai-scientist-combines-theory-and-data-to-discover-scientific-equations","title":{"rendered":"New \u2018AI scientist\u2019 combines theory and data to discover scientific equations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-ai-scientist-combines-theory-and-data-to-discover-scientific-equations3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 1918, the American chemist Irving Langmuir published a paper examining the behavior of gas molecules sticking to a solid surface. Guided by the results of careful experiments, as well as his theory that solids offer discrete sites for the gas molecules to fill, he worked out a series of equations that describe how much gas will stick, given the pressure.<\/p>\n<p>Now, about a hundred years later, an \u201cAI scientist\u201d developed by researchers at IBM Research, Samsung AI, and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) has reproduced a key part of Langmuir\u2019s Nobel Prize-winning work. The system\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/artificial+intelligence\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">artificial intelligence<\/a> (AI) functioning as a scientist\u2014also rediscovered Kepler\u2019s third law of planetary motion, which can calculate the time it takes one space object to orbit another given the distance separating them, and produced a good approximation of Einstein\u2019s relativistic time-dilation law, which shows that time slows down for fast-moving objects.<\/p>\n<p>A paper describing the results is published in <i>Nature Communications<\/i> on April 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1918, the American chemist Irving Langmuir published a paper examining the behavior of gas molecules sticking to a solid surface. Guided by the results of careful experiments, as well as his theory that solids offer discrete sites for the gas molecules to fill, he worked out a series of equations that describe how much [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":579,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161978","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\/579"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}