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

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

Davide Castelvecchi

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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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