High Energy Theory Seminar

There is no doubt that there is a revolution going on in machine learning and artificial intelligence, but what does it mean for physics? Is it all hype, or will it transform the way we think about and do physics?I will describe machine learning from a physicist's perspective and isolate a few research areas that I think may be transformative. I will discuss how we can unpack physicist's healthy skepticism and trepidation about the use of machine learning and reformulate those concerns into quantitative or operational objectives. I will also advocate the development of hybrid machine learning techniques imbued with physics knowledge, which I call “physics-aware machine learning".