On its own ...

The heliocentric reality of the solar system, discovered by Nicolas Copernicus in 1543, forever changed how man viewed the heavens. In 2019, an AI named SciNet discovered the same thing on its own.

• Scientists trained a neural network to predict the movements of Mars and the Sun.
• In the process, the network generated formulae that place the Sun at the center of our solar system.
• The case suggests that machine-learning techniques could help reveal new laws of physics.

It gets better ...

In the process, SciNet generated formulas that place the Sun at the center of our solar system. Remarkably, SciNet accomplished this in a way similar to how astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus discovered heliocentricity.

Nicolas Copernicus