According to Google, the new AI (artificial intelligence) tool was tested by scientists at Stanford University in the US and Royal University London, using advanced theories to help scientists synthesize large volumes of data and make new theorems.
AI is increasingly deployed in the workplace, from answering calls to conducting legal research, following the success of ChatGPT and similar models over the past year.
Google's AI developer, DeepMind, has prioritized scientific development with virtual assistants. DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, who received the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his AI model to predict the complex structure of proteins.
In an experiment on cirrhosis, Google said that all methods proposed by the company's new AI scientist showed good results and the potential to inhibit the cause of the disease.
Google said that these initial results show great potential for AI scientists, to help real scientists come up with more solutions to the problems they are researching.
"Although this is an initial discovery that needs further verification, it shows a promising direction for AI systems, to enhance and accelerate the work of scientists," Google emphasized.
Scientists working in Google's project emphasize that developing AI virtual collaborators will help scientists, not replace them.
We hope this will increase, rather than reduce, scientific cooperation, says Google scientist Vivek Natarajan.
