Are pipettes or vials scientists? Computers are tools like hammers, and have equal agency. There are no nonhuman scientists.
If someone trains a translation model between languages they don't know, is that someone a translator?
I guess the users of said model would be "translators" as they would be doing the translation (without necessarily knowing the languages either).
Making conjectures, deriving predictions from the hypotheses as logical consequences, and then carrying out experiments or empirical observations based on those predictions.
Not sure AI is up to that, and it's debatable if it'll ever be able to make and test conjectures. There is a difference between symbol manipulation (like outputting text) and actual conjecture.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_Scientist
Adam is capable of:
- hypothesizing to explain observations