The Eureka Machine

An AI expert reveals the transformative potential of artificial intelligence to usher in a new era of scientific discovery.

Researchers are publishing more papers than ever before, but human expertise has grown narrower and the rate of scientific progress is slowing. AI will reverse this trend. AI pioneer Richard Socher argues that AI will usher in a century’s worth of breakthroughs in just the next decade as each stage of the scientific process—from hypothesis to experiment, from data to theory—is connected and transformed.

The Eureka Machine pulls back the curtain on how AI is already revolutionizing fields as diverse as medicine, cell biology, economics, neuroscience, and astronomy. The results? Radically sped-up timelines for drug development, simulated life-forms accurate down to the subcellular level, and a nascent ability to read and record thoughts (even dreams!). Every branch of science will be transformed, but none more than the new science of intelligence itself. The future, predicts Socher, is a superintelligence that can continuously improve itself until it hits the theoretical upper bound of capability.

Essential reading for funders, founders, researchers, skeptics, and anyone curious about what the AI future will hold, The Eureka Machine reveals the foundation for a coming era of supercharged scientific discovery.

• “Richard Socher built modern AI. Now he’s written the book that explains where it’s taking us.” 
  Steven Kotler, New York Times bestselling author of The Art of Impossible
• “Many books predict that AI will enable amazing discoveries in science and medicine. The Eureka Machine is the first clear exposition of how AI will not only facilitate discoveries in scientific fields, but will make discoveries in the way we make discoveries, improving the scientific method itself.” 
  Peter Norvig, coauthor of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
• “The Eureka Machine is a clear-eyed look at how AI is shaping the future of science. It has already advanced the field in many ways, but as Richard Socher shows, the biggest changes are still to come. A fully realized AI system, such as Socher imagines, would be able to see blind spots and pose questions that would never occur to humans alone—and in the process, would open up new frontiers for science and knowledge.” 
  Tobias Dengel, Wall Street Journal bestselling coauthor of The Sound of the Future
• “Richard Socher makes a compelling case that AI isn’t just another tool for scientists, but a fundamentally new way of doing science, one that will keep evolving and improving. His optimism is infectious, making superintelligence something to look forward to, not fear.” 
  Andrew Hessel, coauthor of The Genesis Machine