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AI image recognition detects bubble-like structures in the universe

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110 points PaulHoule | 1 comments | 31 Mar 25 14:21 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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karim79 ◴[01 Apr 25 23:07 UTC] No.43552251[source]▶
I truly hope that the common theme of the likes of "JWST Just Found Something Which Should Not Exist" etc will not be augmented by stuff like "we used AI(tm) to figure out X, Y, Z".

The last thing we need is hallucinations fucking up the more grounded astrophysics. I'm not saying that is what is happening, I just worry about stuff like this. AI causing us to bark up the wrong tree, and so forth.

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Kye ◴[01 Apr 25 23:23 UTC] No.43552343[source]▶
Machine learning (AI) is used everywhere in astronomy. That's how they made the black hole image. Don't confuse the broader 60+ year old world of ML with transformers and diffusion models.
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cma ◴[02 Apr 25 00:29 UTC] No.43552650[source]▶
Not sure if there was an update/response to this but:

     1st image of our Milky Way's black hole may be inaccurate, scientists say
https://www.space.com/the-universe/black-holes/1st-image-of-...
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1. Kye ◴[02 Apr 25 00:51 UTC] No.43552757[source]▶
It looks like the disagreement is over the exact shape with new technology on the way to help figure it out.

For another ML-assisted science thing, there's the LHC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgs_boson#Findings_since_201...