Iconic image of M87 black hole just got a machine learning makeover

“PRIMO is a new approach to the difficult task of constructing images from EHT observations.”

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[LesDawg]

As a scientist, I find this largely unvalidated application of "AI" to massage hard data extremely troubling. Suffice it to say I won't be making a similar mistake any time soon.

 

[LesDawg]

How does monte carlo simulation (effectively, building a probability distribution of results for the model) do anything fundamentally different to "AI"? In both cases you make an inference from the model and the inputs. It's not a comparison to a complete observation, because they don't have one.

The difference is that we know exactly what a monte carlo simulation does and how it gets to its result. That cannot generally be said of an "AI-based" simulation.