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AI, the new research partner

Horizons No. 137

Artificial intelligence, machine learning, neural networks - or whatever you want to call these highly developed programmes - are massively changing the possibilities for gaining knowledge and thus the sciences.

Horizons No. 137 (in German)
  • Machine authors
  • Algorithms can fix it
  • “Perhaps AI will one day write a better paper than I can”
  • Your co-author, the computer
  • Masterworks of art history, with a glitch in the matrix
  • Keep calm and carry on

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