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    The case for AI-driven scientific idea search

    A user argues AI can tell whether an important open problem needs new ideas or has an answer in existing knowledge.

    Ethan MollickEM
    Mike KnoopMK
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    A user argues that AI offers a way to automate conceptual search, transformation and verification in science. They say it can identify whether an important open problem requires new ideas or whether the answer is already latent in what we know, calling this the biggest change in the philosophy of science since the invention of writing.

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    3 Sources

    Mike Knoop@mikeknoopHumanity now has a clear recipe for using AI to automate conceptual search, transformation, and verification towards new science. Every scientist who has ever lived has been bottlenecked by the same constraint -- a finite ability to absorb, transform, and search humanity's accumulated knowledge. AI can now tell us if an important open problem requires new ideas. Or wether the answer is latent in what we already know. I argue this is the most significant change in the philosophy of science since the invention of writing ~6,000 years ago.1h
    Ethan Mollick@emollickAfter a brief but institution-eroding slop science era, it increasingly looks like we are going to have two revolutions from AI: 1) Everything ever published will be re-read and re-judged in ways that human scientists never anticipated 2) Novel discoveries will start to come fast1h

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    Mike Knoop@mikeknoopHumanity now has a clear recipe for using AI to automate conceptual search, transformation, and verification towards new science. Every scientist who has ever lived has been bottlenecked by the same constraint -- a finite ability to absorb, transform, and search humanity's accumulated knowledge. AI can now tell us if an important open problem requires new ideas. Or wether the answer is latent in what we already know. I argue this is the most significant change in the philosophy of science since the invention of writing ~6,000 years ago.1h
    Ethan Mollick@emollickAfter a brief but institution-eroding slop science era, it increasingly looks like we are going to have two revolutions from AI: 1) Everything ever published will be re-read and re-judged in ways that human scientists never anticipated 2) Novel discoveries will start to come fast1h