alt Hacker NewsI thought you were going to say "give AI the first part of a paper (prompt) and let it finish it (completion)" as a validation AI can produce science at par with research results. Before it can do that, I have no hope that it can produce novel ideas.
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bee_rider • last Wednesday at 12:29 AM
I guess it would also need the experimental data. It would, I guess, also need some ability to do little experiments and write off those ideas as not worth following up on…
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I once had a university assignment where they provided the figures from a paper and we had to write the paper around the just the given figures.
A bit like how you might write a paper yourself - starting with the data.
As it turned out I thought the figures looked like data that might be from a paper referenced in a different lecturers set of lectures ( just on the conclusion, he hadn't shown the figures ) - so I went down the library ( this is in the days of non-digitized content - you had to physically walk the stacks ) and looked it up - found the original paper and then a follow up paper by the same authors....
I like to think I was just doing my background research properly.
I told a friend about the paper and before you know it the whole class knew - and I had to admit to the lecturer that I'd found the original paper when he wondered why the whole class had done so well.
Obviously this would be trivial today with an electronic search.