AI-generated science is now "good enough"
The "AI Scientist" is mediocre and uninspired. Don't dismiss it.
AI can now write halfway decent research papers about AI.
Last week, Nature published a study on an "AI Scientist" that automates research. The tool can come up with the idea for a machine learning study, run the experiments, review its own work, and draft up a paper that human reviewers thought was okay — (almost) without human help.
Does this mean that AI will replace scientists tomorrow? No. The AI is a mediocre scientist; its best paper was too low quality to be accepted to a normal conference. But it was good enough for workshop with a 70% acceptance rate.
And good enough is enough to matter.
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