| Eureqa is an artificial intelligence software tool for detecting equations and hidden mathematical relationships in data. Its primary goal is to identify the simplest mathematical formulas which could describe the underlying mechanisms that produced the data. Developed by Mike Schmidt at Cornell University, Eurequa is free to download and use. |
He is the co-designer of Eureqa, an artificial intelligence tool for detecting equations and hidden mathematical relationships in data. Its goal is to identify the simplest mathematical formulas which could describe the underlying mechanisms that produced the data.—
Eureqa is free to download and free to use and many scientists and researchers area already applying it to their work.
In the longer term, applications like Eureqa could one day take over a large part of scientific work and become real robot scientists.
Data analysis is a key task in any modern lab, and is the core service provided by many auxiliary companies working in major industries.
Eureqa’s ability to ‘discover’ the laws of nature is helped by the fact that physical laws are unchanging and constant. At their core, there is always some aspect of these equations that cannot change, no matter what Eureqa does to it. However, there are an infinite number of equations that fit the data perfectly and are also invariant, which makes things quite complex for the humans analyzing Eureqa’s discoveries.
Schmidt, a computer science PhD student who created Eureqa with Hod Lipson, used the following metaphor to describe the deficiency of an early version: “It’s like arguing with a teenager. It just keeps coming back with things that are irrelevant”.
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