TWO AI-BASED SCIENCE ASSISTANTS SUCCEED WITH DRUG-RETARGETING TASKS

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Nature recently released two papers that describe AI systems intended to help scientists develop and test hypotheses. Google's Co-Scientist is designed to keep scientists in the loop, so researchers have to regularly apply their judgment to direct the system. FutureHouse's system can evaluate biological data from specific classes of experiments. Both models are designed to process massive amounts of information to create largely straightforward hypotheses, like whether a drug will work for a specific condition.