Will we have AIs doing an increasing amount of the research, theory and even publication, with human scientists increasingly relegated to doing experiments under their direction?
If so, it won't last long. At some point AI will be able to use robots to do the experiments itself.
lmfao
Closed loop optimization is already a thing, and you don’t even need AI for it, just good old bayesian optimization is enough.
Bayesian doesn't have 'world model' intuition for next experiments to run. Think, human scientists are very 'sample-efficient' at deciding which experiment (i.e. sample) to run, in ways good-ol opt isn't but LLMs could be.
thoughts?
I feel like you missed the context of my comment. Someone suggested AI would do experiments, someone responded with “lmfao” as a dismissal. I answered that we already have computers running experimental series even without AI. I’m not dismissing AI I’m saying that we are already in a post computer run experimentation world. People not in an industry using that would obviously not know.
AI is just good old bayesian :|
In practice this turns out to be extremely challenging. I've been through many labs with a ton of automated stuff that is... constantly being worked on by a range of 3rd party techs, rather than actually running in response to models.
It makes me wonder if there is some easily automated or configurable experiment is capable of revealing "new science".