On Tuesday, Tokyo-based AI research firm Sakana AI announced a new AI system called “The AI Scientist” that attempts to conduct scientific research autonomously using AI language models (LLMs) similar ...

Journal editors and peer reviewers are being flooded with AI-generated papers that are almost impossible to detect.

The AI Scientist scans existing literature, generates hypotheses, writes and executes code, analyses results and produces a ...

To date, the main role of AI in scientific research has been to assist with narrow tasks such as discovering chemical structures, analyzing data or predicting protein shapes. But now, the technology ...