DailyDirt: Robot Scientists

People are usually pretty quick to admit that artificial intelligence programs are better than most humans at solving a lot of math problems.

Human scientists have generally been needed to interpret data and make conclusions, but AI software could be catching up with scientists by coming up with their own hypotheses and conclusions.

Here are just a few examples of programs that might be writing up their own PhD dissertations someday.

• Robot mathematicians like Graffiti have been around for a...