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Newly Created 'AI Scientist' Is About to Start Churning Out Research (www.sciencealert.com)

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Next, they must formulate a research question and design and conduct an experiment in pursuit of an answer.

Then, they must analyse and interpret the results of the experiment, which may raise yet another research question.

Can a process this complex be automated? Last week, Sakana AI Labs announced the creation of an "AI scientist" – an artificial intelligence system they claim can make scientific discoveries in the area of machine learning in a fully automated way.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Ooof, this is not going to end well. I was optimistic about AI like everyone else but hype upon weakly-good arguments upon humiliating disaster just … doesn’t make me confident.

I believe in human scientists to get around the flaws here but only SOME human scientists can I believe in 🙄🤷‍♂️