{"id":95197,"date":"2019-08-23T11:03:19","date_gmt":"2019-08-23T18:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/ai-created-a-3d-replica-of-our-universe-we-have-no-idea-how-it-works"},"modified":"2019-08-23T11:03:19","modified_gmt":"2019-08-23T18:03:19","slug":"ai-created-a-3d-replica-of-our-universe-we-have-no-idea-how-it-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/ai-created-a-3d-replica-of-our-universe-we-have-no-idea-how-it-works","title":{"rendered":"AI Created a 3D Replica of Our Universe. We Have No Idea How It Works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-created-a-3d-replica-of-our-universe-we-have-no-idea-how-it-works2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The first-ever artificial intelligence simulation of the universe seems to work like the real thing \u2014 and is almost as mysterious.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers reported the new simulation June 24 in the journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/early\/2019\/06\/21\/1821458116\">Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/a>. The goal was to create a virtual version of the cosmos in order to simulate different conditions for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/1774-greatest-mysteries-universe.html\">the universe\u2019s beginning<\/a>, but the scientists also hope to study their own simulation to understand why it works so well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s like teaching image-recognition software with lots of pictures of cats and dogs, but then it\u2019s able to recognize elephants,\u201d study co-author Shirley Ho, a theoretical astrophysicist at the Center for Computational Astrophysics in New York City, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-06-ai-universe-sim-fast-accurateand.html\">said in a statement<\/a>. \u201cNobody knows how it does this, and it\u2019s a great mystery to be solved.\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/65773-facts-about-the-big-bang.html\">Far-Out Discoveries About the Universe\u2019s Beginnings<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first-ever artificial intelligence simulation of the universe seems to work like the real thing \u2014 and is almost as mysterious. Researchers reported the new simulation June 24 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The goal was to create a virtual version of the cosmos in order to simulate different conditions [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95197","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}