The scientific revolution has increased our understanding of the world immensely and improved our lives immeasurably. Now, many argue that science as we know it could be rendered passé by artificial intelligence. 

… Today, AI is being increasingly integrated into scientific discovery to accelerate research, helping scientists generate hypotheses, design experiments, gather and interpret large datasets, and write papers. But the reality is that science and AI have little in common and AI is unlikely to make science obsolete. The core of science is theoretical models that anyone can use to make reliable descriptions and predictions. … The core of AI, in contrast, is data mining. … However, without an underlying causal explanation, we don’t know whether a discovered pattern is a meaningful reflection of an underlying causal relationship or meaningless serendipity. — Read More