Is the scientific method really the best approach to learning about the world? A new paper in Collective Intelligence applies the scientific method to itself, finding that some common strategies that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Stanford researchers have built a virtual AI lab that works like a team of expert scientists. It could reshape how science gets ...

In an effort to automate scientific discovery using artificial intelligence (AI), researchers have created a virtual laboratory that combines several ‘AI scientists’ — large language models with ...

Virtual Lab architecture. The workflow for designing agents in the Virtual Lab. Each agent is specified with four criteria: title, expertise, goal, and role. The human researcher in the Virtual Lab ...