The James Webb Space Telescope deep field image showing some of the earliest and most distant galaxies ever seen. Artificial intelligence is all the rage these days. When we think of AI, we’re usually thinking of uncanny "deepfake" images and Chat GPT’s written responses — but astronomers are actually using it to make significant discoveries, too. Researchers from the Flatiron Institute’s Center for Computational Astrophysics (CCA) in New York City recently used AI to determine five cosmological parameters — the numbers that describe the entire universe in astronomers’ computer simulations — with unprecedented precision. These parameters can be thought of as the "settings of the universe that determine how it operates on the largest scales," said astronomer Liam Parker, a co-author on the new work, in a statement . […]
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