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Sakana claims its AI-generated paper passed peer review — but it’s a bit more nuanced than that
Sakana said its AI generated the first peer-reviewed scientific publication. But while the claim isn't untrue, there are caveats to note.
The AI Scientist-v2 generated the papers “end-to-end,” Sakana claims, including the scientific hypotheses, experiments and experimental code, data analyses, visualizations, text, and titles. Image Credits: Sakana“The accepted paper both introduces a new, promising method for training neural networks and shows that there are remaining empirical challenges,” Lange said. In a blog post, Sakana admits that its AI occasionally made “embarrassing” citation errors, for example incorrectly attributing a method to a 2016 paper instead of the original 1997 work.
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