When can we say AI made a scientific discovery?
An analysis argues that AI firms' claims of autonomous scientific breakthroughs obscure genuine progress and raise questions about how credit is divided between AI tools and human scientists.
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Human take
AI is an amazing learning tool. It also just gives you the answer, and humans are wired to take paths of least resistance. At scale in practice, humans will simply turn off the brain and use the tool. Over time, do we get smarter?