> If the solar system’s structure were open for debate today, AI algorithms could successfully predict the planets’ motion without ever discovering Kepler’s laws, and Google could just store all the recorded positions of the stars and planets in a giant database
I'm sorry, but this bit is half wrong and simply numerically illiterate. We can store all of the recorded positions of the planets and other bodies in the solar system, but we need models to predict their future positions. This is an important distinction, since we might use such models to save the human race one day.
I'm sorry, but this bit is half wrong and simply numerically illiterate. We can store all of the recorded positions of the planets and other bodies in the solar system, but we need models to predict their future positions. This is an important distinction, since we might use such models to save the human race one day.