Using AI for Science

A while ago I linked to an O'Reilly Conference talk about using AI to help ophthalmologists to detect macular degeneration. Since then, I've found a couple more articles about how scientists are using AI to scan data and help them find patterns that they might otherwise have missed.

• Scientists are using AI to help predict disease outbreaks by "searching for the ecological and epidemiological patterns that precede spillovers—the harbingers of outbreaks that flicker to life in the wild, then trickle into humans."
• Geologists are using AI to find patterns in seismic data and "to try to demystify earthquake physics and tease out the warning signs of impending quakes."

I'm sure I could find more articles but these are the ones that I've read recently.