Robot Achieves Scientific First

This is really astounding if you stop to think about it. The robot formulated a hypothesis and carried out a series of experiments designed to test that hypothesis resulting in new scientific knowledge. All without any input from his human designers. This is amazing! It's not just manual workers who stand to lose jobs to machines, but we Ph.D.'s may need to start worrying. Fortunately, I do have tenure.

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