{"id":167698,"date":"2023-07-17T12:24:23","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T17:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/human-aware-ai-helps-accelerate-scientific-discoveries-new-research-shows"},"modified":"2023-07-17T12:24:23","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T17:24:23","slug":"human-aware-ai-helps-accelerate-scientific-discoveries-new-research-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/human-aware-ai-helps-accelerate-scientific-discoveries-new-research-shows","title":{"rendered":"Human-aware AI helps accelerate scientific discoveries, new research shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/human-aware-ai-helps-accelerate-scientific-discoveries-new-research-shows2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new study explores how artificial intelligence can not only better predict new scientific discoveries but can also usefully expand them. The researchers, who published their work in <i>Nature Human Behaviour<\/i>, built models that could predict human inferences and the scientists who will make them.<\/p>\n<p>The authors also built models that avoided human inference to generate scientifically promising \u201calien\u201d hypotheses that would not likely be considered until the distant future, if at all. They argue that the two demonstrations\u2014the first allowing for the acceleration of human discovery, while the second identifies and passes over its blind spots\u2014means that a human-aware AI would allow for movement beyond the contemporary scientific frontier.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you build in awareness to what people are doing, you can improve prediction and leapfrog them to accelerate science,\u201d says co-author James A. Evans, the Max Palevsky Professor in the Department of Sociology and director of the Knowledge Lab. \u201cBut you can also figure out what people can\u2019t currently do, or won\u2019t be able to do for decades or more into the future. You can augment them by providing them that kind of complementary intelligence.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study explores how artificial intelligence can not only better predict new scientific discoveries but can also usefully expand them. The researchers, who published their work in Nature Human Behaviour, built models that could predict human inferences and the scientists who will make them. The authors also built models that avoided human inference to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167698","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\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}