Scientific discovery is often a laborious, multi-step process that involves making observations, forming a hypothesis, conducting experiments, analyzing the data and drawing conclusions.
One of the hardest steps in the process is coming up with a new idea to test. Now, Google has introduced an artificial intelligence (AI) system that can help scientists formulate new hypotheses, grounded in relevant research literature.
Called “AI co-scientist,” the AI system uses AI agents that generate an idea, debate the feasibility of the idea among themselves in a “tournament,” and refine the suggested hypotheses before presenting it to the human scientist, according to a paper from Google, Stanford and other researchers.
AI co-scientist has the “potential to…