Inspired by the mastery of artificial intelligence (AI) over games like Go and Super Mario, scientists have trained an AI agent - an autonomous computational program that observes and acts - how to conduct research experiments at superhuman levels by using the same approach. ( 1 ) There you go. Soon - even by the time you read this (because the news are a bit old) - computers will be conducting experiments like humans. And we will cry out in triumph. Without understanding tha