t is by now a familiar, even banal reality that AIs can suss out the ineffable essence of collections of artwork. The Rembrandtiness of Rembrandt, the Mozartiness of Mozart: These are weak passwords that have been cracked. Given enough data from the output of certain classes of learnable systems, an AI can reliably model the internal generative mec

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But there are already signs that AI can help. Research has successfully demonstrated that it is possible to correctly determine the most promising directions in science by analyzing past papers with AI, ideally combining human filtering with the AI software. And other work has found that AI shows considerable promise autonomously conducting scienti

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