MIT Professor's New Paper: How Intelligence Becomes Science? A Closed-Loop Epistemology
ProfBuehlerMIT · x · 2026-08-31
MIT professor Markus J. Buehler publishes paper 'Intelligence Becomes Science', proposing a closed-loop epistemology for scientific intelligence: systems formulate representations, intervene in reality, meet evidence, and revise commitments. This exposure has a cost ('the pain of becoming'), but failures are preserved as executable knowledge, becoming starting points for next inquiry. The paper also shows language models can turn material microstructure images into 3D simulation worlds.
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