HORIZONS 2025 Artificial Intelligence in Physics: Then, Now, and Tomorrow

Harrison B. Prosper, Ph.D.

Kirby W. Kemper Endowed Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, Florida State University

For millennia, visionaries have dreamed of creating artificial beings whose cognitive abilities match or exceed ours. Over the past twenty years or so spectacular advances have occurred in building systems that exhibit artificial intelligence (AI) together with AI-enabled technologies that many of us use every day. Artificial intelligence is also profoundly changing the practice, and perhaps even the nature, of physics research. In this talk, Dr. Prosper will trace the development of machine-learning-based AI, how it has been and is being used in physics, and what the future of AI-driven physics research might look like.