AI ‘scientists’ joined these research teams: here’s what happened

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Thank you for visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain the best experience, we recommend you use a more up to date browser (or turn off compatibility mode in Internet Explorer). In the meantime, to ensure continued support, we are displaying the site without styles and JavaScript. Advertisement Nicola Jones is a freelance writer in Pemberton, British Columbia. Search author on: PubMed Google Scholar Illustration: The Project Twins You have full access to this article via your institution. On a Sunday morning in April, pathologist Thomas Montine ran one of the most surreal meetings of his life. In an online test interface for a system called the Virtual Lab, Montine constructed a team of six artificial-intelligence (AI) characters, all powered by a commercial large language m

Email Bluesky Facebook LinkedIn Reddit Whatsapp X Illustration: The Project Twins Access through your institution Buy or subscribe On a Sunday morning in April, pathologist Thomas Montine ran one of the most surreal meetings of his life. In an online test interface for a system called the Virtual Lab, Montine constructed a team of six artificial-intelligence (AI) characters, all powered by a commercial large language model. He gave them specialities: he made a couple neuroscientists, one a neuropharmacologist and another a medicinal chemist. Then, he asked this virtual lab group to examine pos

AI ‘scientists’ joined these research teams: here’s what happened

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