最后的宇航员：AI浪潮下天体物理学的灵魂拷问

Amid a flood of AI advances, astrophysicists are questioning the soul of their field JOSHUA SOKOL One afternoon in April, Cecilia Garraffo settled down at the head of a conference room table in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and gazed out at what might be the last astrophysicists of their kind. The walls of this room had, in the past, reverber- ated with the din of thousands of other groups of scientists. Now, as streaks of sunlight poured in, the discussions turned to nonhuman collaborators. One by one, the gathered researchers discussed how they planned to apply machine learning to problems in astronomy. Observing an interstellar comet. Discerning wispy filaments of galaxies at the universe’s largest scales. …