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🧠 Just discovered AI that learns from "imperfect" data—like us humans do. Turns out the future isn't about perfect info, but smart partnerships. 🤖✨

The future of scientific AI isn't about feeding machines more perfect information. It's about teaching them to be better partners in the messy, uncertain, gloriously imperfect process of understanding our world. And that future, thankfully, doesn't require us to wait for perfect data that may never come.

Sometimes the most profound revolutions are the quiet ones—the ones that work with what we have rather than demanding what we wish we had.

Multifidelity Kolmogorov–Arnold networks

Amanda A Howard*, Bruno Jacob and Panos Stinis

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