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Soon, computers could generate many useful hypotheses with little help from humans.
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Several studies have examined the full automation of reverse engineering, from hypothesis generation to experiments and back, termed machine science.
“During the last decade, several studies have been presented which examine the full automation of reverse engineering, from hypothesis generation to experiments and back, in what has been termed machine science [223].”
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- Authors
- Evans, J., & Rzhetsky, A.
- Affiliations
- University of Chicago (US)
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 2010-07-23
- Volume
- 329
- Issue
- 5990
- Pages
- 399-400
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- PMC
- PMC3647224
- OpenAlex
- W80906861
- Cited by
- 68
- References
- 21
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- FWCI
- 8.79
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Science (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health (5p50mh094267-05)
- National Institute of Mental Health (P50-MH094267)
- National Institute of General Medical Sciences (R01GM061372)
- U.S. National Library of Medicine (R01LM010132)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Artificial Intelligence Applications
- Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Materials Chemistry › Machine Learning in Materials Science
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › AI-based Problem Solving and Planning
- Keywords
- automated hypothesis generation, artificial intelligence, scientific discovery, machine learning
- MeSH terms
- Artificial Intelligence, Computers, Concept Formation, Philosophy, Research, Science, Knowledge, Data Mining
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