>> It's about formulating laws that describe the behaviour of physical systems - that's the essence of what Physics is.
I didn't see any attempt to formulate laws. The researchers trained a neural net model to predict the next event in a sequence. That is not a natural law, it's a maximum probability estimator.
To clarify, a natural law would be a formula with variables that one can plug in numbers to, in order to predict the behaviour of a system. For example, Newton's law of gravitation is a natural law, Kepler's laws of planetary motion are natural laws, the laws of thermondynamics are natural laws. But a neural net model trained to predict the next frame in a video? How is that a "law"?
I didn't see any attempt to formulate laws. The researchers trained a neural net model to predict the next event in a sequence. That is not a natural law, it's a maximum probability estimator.
To clarify, a natural law would be a formula with variables that one can plug in numbers to, in order to predict the behaviour of a system. For example, Newton's law of gravitation is a natural law, Kepler's laws of planetary motion are natural laws, the laws of thermondynamics are natural laws. But a neural net model trained to predict the next frame in a video? How is that a "law"?