Reposted by Jan
‘The Anthropic scientists [..] said that their A.I. had taken “the first steps of a biological discovery on its own.”
[Dr. Mestre] disputed that claim. “They are the same systems we have been studying for years” And they are the same enzymes, he said, that he had described to Anthropic’s A.I.”’
nytimes.com
Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)
An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.