News Summary

• Design methods driven by artificial intelligence (AI) have begun to move beyond tuning a handful of parameters to proposing entirely new experimental layouts.
• The discovered configurations often challenge established design conventions while matching or even exceeding the performance of human-designed set-ups.
• Looking ahead, simulators spanning several physics domains, combined with large suites of experimental objectives, could discover unorthodox experimental concepts that are difficult to arrive at with human intuition alone.
• Ultimately, AI-designed experiments might thereby open new ways to explore the Universe.