Sakana’s AI-Generated Paper Passes Peer Review—But There’s a Catch
Japanese startup Sakana claims its AI-generated research paper passed peer review at ICLR.
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Sakana’s AI-Generated Paper Passes Peer Review—But There’s a Catch
Japanese AI startup Sakana said that its AI generated one of the first peer-reviewed scientific publications. But while the claim isn’t necessarily untrue, there are caveats to note. Image:Google The debate swirling around AI and its role in the scientific process grows fiercer by the day. Many researchers don’t think AI is quite ready to serve as a “co-scientist,” while others think that there’s potential — but acknowledge it’s early days. Sakana falls into the latter camp. The company said that it used an AI system called The AI Scientist-v2 to generate a paper that Sakana then submitted to a workshop at ICLR, a long-running and reputable AI conference. Sakana claims that the workshop’s organizers, as well as ICLR’s leadership, had agreed to work with the company to conduct an experiment to double-blind review AI-generated manuscripts. Sakana said it collaborated with researchers at the University of British Columbia and the University of Oxford to submit three AI-generated papers to the…
