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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: 0.208s | 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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1. NitpickLawyer ◴[02 Apr 25 07:45 UTC] No.43554487[source]▶
> The last thing we need is hallucinations fucking up the more grounded astrophysics.

You're thinking of the wrong ML. Generative models "hallucinate" and it's as much a feature as it's a bug. ML in astrophysics is not generative. They use it for flagging, "binning" data and in general (simplified) classification.