Researchers built an ‘AI Scientist’ — what can it do?

Castelvecchi, Davide

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The large language model does everything from reading the literature to writing and reviewing its own papers, but it has limited applicability.

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  1. Davide Castelvecchi
An cartoon illustration of a scientist in a labcoat controlling a giant robot head to produce an endless text document.

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Could science be fully automated? A team of machine-learning researchers has now tried to make this possible.

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Nature 633, 266 (2024)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-02842-3

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