{"id":238680,"date":"2026-06-10T02:25:53","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T07:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/to-discover-new-physics-ai-may-need-to-unlearn-the-old-one"},"modified":"2026-06-10T02:25:53","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T07:25:53","slug":"to-discover-new-physics-ai-may-need-to-unlearn-the-old-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/to-discover-new-physics-ai-may-need-to-unlearn-the-old-one","title":{"rendered":"To discover new physics, AI may need to \u2018unlearn\u2019 the old one"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/to-discover-new-physics-ai-may-need-to-unlearn-the-old-one.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A study in the <i>Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics<\/i> explores how a machine-learning strategy known as transfer learning could dramatically reduce the computational cost of searching for new physics beyond the standard cosmological model\u2014while also revealing an unexpected risk: Sometimes AI systems can become too reliant on what they already know.<\/p>\n<p>Artificial intelligence is widely used in cosmology to analyze the universe. But testing theories beyond the standard cosmological model, known as \u039bCDM, remains extremely computationally demanding.<\/p>\n<p>Although \u039bCDM successfully describes many properties of the universe\u2014from its expansion to the distribution of galaxies\u2014physicists know it is probably incomplete. Recent observations hint that phenomena such as massive neutrinos, modified gravity or evolving dark energy could point toward new physics beyond the current model.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics explores how a machine-learning strategy known as transfer learning could dramatically reduce the computational cost of searching for new physics beyond the standard cosmological model\u2014while also revealing an unexpected risk: Sometimes AI systems can become too reliant on what they already know. Artificial intelligence is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,48,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-particle-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238680","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}