How AI/ML has uniquely contributed to novel science in astronomy across three assistive modes: circumventing human-centric bottlenecks, accelerating physics-based computation, and hypothesis generation — including LLMs for UX and a simulation-based-inference breakthrough in microlensing degeneracy theory.
At the Flatiron Institute's Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium; video in Day 2 Session 1 recording.