{"id":176307,"date":"2023-11-19T16:23:09","date_gmt":"2023-11-19T22:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/hypotheses-devised-by-ai-could-find-blind-spots-in-research"},"modified":"2023-11-19T16:23:09","modified_gmt":"2023-11-19T22:23:09","slug":"hypotheses-devised-by-ai-could-find-blind-spots-in-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/hypotheses-devised-by-ai-could-find-blind-spots-in-research","title":{"rendered":"Hypotheses devised by AI could find \u2018blind spots\u2019 in research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hypotheses-devised-by-ai-could-find-blind-spots-in-research2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In early October, as the Nobel Foundation announced the recipients of this year\u2019s Nobel prizes, a group of researchers, including a previous laureate, met in Stockholm to discuss how artificial intelligence (AI) might have an increasingly creative role in the scientific process. The workshop, led in part by Hiroaki Kitano, a biologist and chief executive of Sony AI in Tokyo, considered creating prizes for AIs and AI\u2013human collaborations that produce world-class science. Two years earlier, Kitano proposed the Nobel Turing Challenge<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-023-03596-0#ref-CR1\">1<\/a><\/sup>: the creation of highly autonomous systems (\u2018AI scientists\u2019) with the potential to make Nobel-worthy discoveries by 2050.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s easy to imagine that AI could perform some of the necessary steps in scientific discovery. Researchers already use it to search the literature, automate data collection, run statistical analyses and even draft parts of papers. Generating hypotheses \u2014 a task that typically requires a creative spark to ask interesting and important questions \u2014 poses a more complex challenge. For Sendhil Mullainathan, an economist at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business in Illinois, \u201cit\u2019s probably been the single most exhilarating kind of research I\u2019ve ever done in my life\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In early October, as the Nobel Foundation announced the recipients of this year\u2019s Nobel prizes, a group of researchers, including a previous laureate, met in Stockholm to discuss how artificial intelligence (AI) might have an increasingly creative role in the scientific process. The workshop, led in part by Hiroaki Kitano, a biologist and chief executive [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176307","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}