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The Humans Building AI Scientists
A look inside FutureHouse, a nonprofit research institute in San Francisco.
This tool-using corvid is the chosen mascot of FutureHouse, a nonprofit determined to automate scientific discovery using AI agents that can generate hypotheses, connect existing findings, and even suggest experiments. The Allen Institute for AI introduced Semantic Scholar way back in 2015; it was among the earliest platforms to rank and predict research relevance with machine learning rather than raw citation counts. Elicit, launched in the fall of 2023, gained two hundred thousand users by word of mouth; it promised a “one-click literature review” that, in controlled tests, cut time in half for researchers sifting through papers.
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