Biochemist Anna Pertl typed in her question, pressed Enter and left for the night.
The artificial-intelligence system that she had prompted is designed to produce innovative scientific hypotheses. But, unlike a typical chatbot, this AI tool — called Co-Scientist — doesn’t simply generate an answer in a single pass. It launches several autonomous AI systems, known as agents, to search for and synthesize information from papers, evaluate competing explanations, refine and critique hypotheses and iteratively test ideas against published evidence.
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