I really think this is not "Autonomous Discovery". There is so much thought and science behind deriving the hypothesis and determining what experiments to do that is not captured in what Kosmos demonstrated here. It is exciting to see the reasoning capabilities and look forward to next steps but at this point a bit oversold in my opinion.
It’s pretty impressive that Kosmos can reproduce the conclusions that human scientists came to de novo. Especially when it does so much faster than a human.
If the goal is to accelerate scientific discovery, this is what success looks like.
You are changing what they claim from "Autonomous Discovery" to "Accelerating Scientific Discovery". I agree with the latter.
Exactly. There is no standard, humans will adapt and find how to use AI as a tool, and the bar will never and should never be fixed.
The beauty of Turing's Test (which he strangely seemed to misunderstand) is that it is almost impossible to pass.
I am looking at this paper and saying I don't see the Autonomous Discovery claim but I do see novel AI contributions to science.