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

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Wow: Just tried PaperQA, an open source AI-powered literature review whose research paper claims it achieves "superhuman synthesis of scientific knowledge" I tested it against papers I wrote and it seems like the real deal, putting together a good summary with accurate details. https://t.co/E0VE7ORpLo

👀Using an autonomous agent based on o3-mini and GPT-4.1, a team from Harvard, MIT & other institutions reproduced and updated an entire issue of Cochrane Reviews in two days… saving 12 person-years of work! The AI reviews captured more papers & were more accurate than humans. https://t.co/1IEG2ZlL7X