Min-Yen Kan and Joeran Beel speak with ‘Nature’ about the potential (and threats) of AI Scientists

Following my recent visit to Prof. Min-Yen Kan at the National University of Singapore, Moritz Baumgart, Min-Yen Kan and I co-authored a paper critically evaluating Sakana’s AI Scientist (to be published in SIGIR Forum). Our review attracted the attention of Nature, which was preparing an editorial feature on the opportunities Read more…

AI4Research: An overview of tools for conducting research autonomously.

Until recently, AI systems were primarily used for narrow tasks such as analysing large datasets or identifying patterns in complex information. However, with large-language models (LLMs), we are approaching a new frontier: the full automation of the scientific process, from idea generation and literature review to experimental design, execution, evaluation, Read more…