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Do AI models produce more original ideas than researchers?

The concepts were judged by reviewers. They were not told who or what had created them.
  1. Gemma Conroy
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An ideas generator powered by artificial intelligence (AI) came up with more original research ideas than did 50 scientists working independently, according to a preprint posted on arXiv this month1.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-03070-5

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  1. Si, C., Yang, D. & Hashimoto, T. Preprint at arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2409.04109 (2024).

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