Report Finds AI Boosts Research Tasks but Lags in Lab Experiments

A new report produced by Google, Google DeepMind and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has found that researchers across scientific disciplines are making extensive use of artificial intelligence tools in their work, according to Scientific American.

However, the report indicates that while AI is widely adopted for certain research tasks, it has not translated into comparable gains in the physical execution of laboratory experiments, Scientific American reported.

The findings suggest a gap between the areas of scientific work where AI is delivering the most benefit and the more hands-on, experimental stages of research that remain largely unaffected by the technology's advances, according to the report cited by Scientific American.

Scientific American's coverage of the report did not provide additional detail on the specific tasks or disciplines examined, or on the methodology used to reach these conclusions.