The Startup Trying a New Trick to Develop AI For Science Discovery
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OpenAI and Anthropic have raised tens of billions of dollars on the promise of artificial intelligence that can make new discoveries in fields like medicine, biology and physics. And yet, we’re nowhere close to that. (You might recall this awkward moment from last fall when a ChatGPT-generated math “discovery” was debunked.) The reason, according to Markus Buehler, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology engineering professor, is simple: large language models underpinning advanced models from OpenAI and Anthropic cannot make new science discoveries on their own.