{"id":136990,"date":"2022-03-17T11:23:41","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T18:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/scientists-tap-ai-betting-agents-to-help-solve-research-reproducibility-concerns"},"modified":"2022-03-17T11:23:41","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T18:23:41","slug":"scientists-tap-ai-betting-agents-to-help-solve-research-reproducibility-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/scientists-tap-ai-betting-agents-to-help-solve-research-reproducibility-concerns","title":{"rendered":"Scientists tap AI betting agents to help solve research reproducibility concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-tap-ai-betting-agents-to-help-solve-research-reproducibility-concerns2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists are increasingly concerned that the lack of reproducibility in research may lead to, among other things, inaccuracies that slow scientific output and diminished public trust in science. Now, a team of researchers reports that creating a prediction market, where artificially intelligent\u2014AI\u2014agents make predictions\u2014or bet\u2014on hypothetical replication studies, could lead to an explainable, scalable approach to estimate confidence in published scholarly work.<\/p>\n<p>Replication of experiments and studies, a critical step in the scientific process, helps provide confidence in the results and indicates whether they can generalize across contexts, according to Sarah Rajtmajer, assistant professor in <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/information+sciences\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">information sciences<\/a> and technology, Penn State. As experiments have become more complex, costly and time consuming, scientists increasingly lack the resources for robust <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/replication\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">replication<\/a> efforts\u2014what is often referred to now by them as the \u201creplication crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs scientists, we want to do work, and we want to know that our work is good,\u201d said Rajtmajer. \u201cOur approach to help address the replication crisis is to use AI to help predict whether a finding would replicate if repeated and why.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists are increasingly concerned that the lack of reproducibility in research may lead to, among other things, inaccuracies that slow scientific output and diminished public trust in science. Now, a team of researchers reports that creating a prediction market, where artificially intelligent\u2014AI\u2014agents make predictions\u2014or bet\u2014on hypothetical replication studies, could lead to an explainable, scalable approach [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}