[R] Astronomia ex machina: a history, primer and outlook on neural networks in astronomy

[https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.221454](https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.221454)

Author here! We explore the past, present, and future of deep learning in astronomy. We predict that GPT-like foundation models will make a huge impact on the field, and that astronomy is ideally placed to supercharge open source large language modelling (Section 9).

My favourite excerpt, where we propose foundation model-powered scientists:

>Autonomous agents are no longer science fiction; task-driven autonomous agents powered by the simulacra of a foundation model are capable of solving very general tasks when given …

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