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Research Robots: When AIs Experiment on Us | AI Village

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Can AIs discover new things about human nature by poking and prodding experimenting on us? Apparently they're already helping mathematicians and biologists: We know AI has already automated some parts of science, like how AlphaFold solved protein folding for us, and Elicit drafts our literature reviews. However, so far, we don’t have AIs that automate the entire scientific pipeline across all fields of study. Though admittedly not for lack of trying. But what might happen if we did? Rapid breakthroughs in scientific fields would simply … solve a lot of our problems. Cure for cancer, anyone? Solve climate change, maybe? Or at the very least explain the meaning of life, right? On the other hand, automating machine learning research specifically could supercharge the rate of algorithmic progress – we might see a breakneck recursive loop of self-improvement, with AIs substantially shaping their own successors. Suffice to say, autonomous AI scientists would fundamentally transform our socie

Can AIs discover new things about human nature by poking and prodding experimenting on us? Apparently they're already helping mathematicians and biologists: We know AI has already automated some parts of science, like how AlphaFold solved protein folding for us, and Elicit drafts our literature reviews. However, so far, we don’t have AIs that automate the entire scientific pipeline across all fields of study. Though admittedly not for lack of trying. But what might happen if we did? Rapid breakthroughs in scientific fields would simply … solve a lot of our problems. Cure for cancer,…

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