Scientific Discovery
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Anandkumar: Scientific AI Bottleneck Is Real-World Testing, Not Hypothesis Generation
“Yes, you can do a lot of hypothesis generation. You can have ideas, but ideas are not enough, right? So you can have a lot of ideas. The bottleneck is going, testing, and verifying that they work in the real world.”
AI Scientific Research Costs Could Soon Drop to Tens of Dollars
“And we have actually started to bring it within view, a dollar cost for these long horizon tasks that is reasonable. It's not millions, it's thousands, and maybe it could be hundreds or even tens of dollars in the near future, too. Have a definitive answer to …”
Kratsios: AI will be the biggest unlock for science in history
“We fundamentally believe that AI is going to be the biggest unlock to scientific discovery in the history of the world. Whether you're in material science, whether you're in chemistry, whether you're in math, whether you're in physics, you know, applying AI to…”
White: Future House Focuses on Discovery Loops Over System Modeling
“We're trying to automate the like cognitive process of scientific discovery, making hypotheses. Choosing experiments to do, analyzing the results from experiments and using it to update your hypotheses or your confidence in those hypotheses, and then leading t…”
Pineau: AI in Healthcare and Science Will Make Transformative Progress Within Five Years
“There's a lot of verticals, whether healthcare or scientific discovery that I think have increased Incredible promise where we're going to see real tangible progress within five years that are going to change completely the face of what we can do. So that's pr…”
Altman: Scientific discovery will remain a valid AI evaluation metric long-term
“Well, we're talking about scientific discovery. I think that'll be an eval that can go for a long time.”
Kolter: Word prediction intelligence is the top scientific discovery in decades
“You can train word predictors, and they produce intelligent, coherent, long-form responses. This is one of the most notable, if not the most notable, scientific discovery of the past 1020 years. Maybe much longer than that, right?”