Google Research Offers AI Co-Scientist
As Seen on Blue Sky
Google has released #AI co-scientist, "a multi-agent AI system built with #Gemini 2.0 as a virtual scientific collaborator to help scientists generate novel hypotheses and research proposals, and to accelerate the clock speed of scientific and biomedical discoveries." Hmm...Skeptical, but interested
— Paul Guinnessy (@paulguinnessy.bsky.social) February 25, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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What's Important Here?
From the Google Research Blog:
Given a scientist’s research goal that has been specified in natural language, the AI co-scientist is designed to generate novel research hypotheses, a detailed research overview, and experimental protocols. To do so, it uses a coalition of specialized agents — Generation, Reflection, Ranking, Evolution, Proximity and Meta-review — that are inspired by the scientific method itself. These agents use automated feedback to iteratively generate, evaluate, and refine hypotheses, resulting in a self-improving cycle of increasingly high-quality and novel outputs.
The blog post contains in-depth detail and additional links to supporting work, including the actual AI Co-Scientist Paper.