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The AI Scientist: Towards Automated Open-Ended Scientific Discovery
The AI Scientist: Towards Fully Automated Open-Ended Scientific Discovery
While frontier models have already been used to aid human scientists, e.g. for brainstorming ideas or writing code, they still require extensive manual supervision or are heavily constrained to a specific task. While there are still occasional flaws in the papers produced by this first version (discussed below and in the report), this cost and the promise the system shows so far illustrate the potential of The AI Scientist to democratize research and significantly accelerate scientific progress. While containing some flaws (e.g. a slightly unconvincing interpretation of why its method is successful), the paper proposes an interesting new direction that displays good empirical results in experiments The AI Scientist itself conducted and peer reviewed.
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