There’s a reason that the boom of artificial intelligence is being referred to as a “brave new world” of technology. There is a lot about AI that is still unknown and we are discovering not only new ways to improve it but also new ways to apply it.
The same could be said for many areas of physics as well. After all, some fields — like quantum physics — have formally only existed for about a hundred years, which is relatively new compared to humans’ long history with other sciences.
It might make sense, then, for researchers to band together to study the two fields in tandem.
It’s the idea behind a National Science Foundation-funded institute, whose goal is to see how the two fields can synergize. “The basic premise is that AI can help us do better physics, and something that is less expected is that physics can also help us understand AI better,” said James Halverson, a Northeastern professor of physics.
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