AI saves scientists time — but that time does not go into depth
A new theoretical study argues research could get worse even if the model worked perfectly. The cause is not error but opportunity cost.
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AlphaFold is not the template for science: reasoning is needed, not data
The conditions that produced AlphaFold are rare: a data bank assembled over 53 years of international cooperation and roughly $21 billion of experimental work. The acceleration of science, MIT Technology Review argues, will come from agents.
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