AI could prove that reality doesn’t exist, physicists say

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A group of physicists wants to use artificial intelligence to prove that reality doesn’t exist. They want to do this by running an artificial general intelligence as an observer on a quantum computer. I wish this was a joke. But I’m afraid it’s not.

Paper here: https://quantum-journal.org/papers/q-...

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