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pazimzadehlast Thursday at 8:40 AM1 replyview on HN

I don't think generating hypotheses is where AI is useful, I think it's more useful for doing back of napkin (or more serious) calculations, helping to find protocols, sourcing literature, etc. Grunt work basically. Generating hypotheses is the fun, exciting part that I doubt scientists want to outsource to AI.


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inductive_magiclast Thursday at 8:44 AM

> I don't think generating hypotheses is where AI is useful,

> Generating hypotheses is the fun, exciting part that I doubt scientists want to outsource to AI

The latter doesn’t imply the former