ERC Consolidator Grant · 2025
Scientist in the loop - Automation of scientific discovery
Where do new scientific ideas come from? That is the question at the root of research on scientific discovery. In the past decade, AI-augmented methods have shaken the practices of discovery across a range of research fields: AlphaFold solved the long-standing protein folding problem; automated discovery methods are being used to decipher ancient scripts once considered unreadable, and to synthesize drugs for previously untreatable diseases. According to the most enthusiastic advocates, in less than a decade, AI will transform practices of research beyond recognition. Should the novel scientific findings generated by AI-powered systems like AlphaFold be considered as instances of machine…
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