Science as Collective Sensemaking - by Charles Yang
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What is Science?
The question of “what is Science”, while philosophical in nature, is an important starting place if we are to understand the impacts of AI for Science. Today, many AI for Science startups presume simplistic models of what Science is and how it works e.g. Science as producing papers, Science as producing data. But both of these models mistake the artifacts for the actual substance. Ask any scientist about a paper in their field and they’ll tell you about everything it left out or glossed over, including sometimes in their own paper. And while foundation models like AlphaFold are useful, and…
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