Two AI-based science assistants succeed with drug-retargeting tasks

On Tuesday, Nature released two papers describing AI systems intended to help scientists develop and test hypotheses. One, Google's Co-Scientist, is designed as what they term "scientist in the loop," meaning researchers are regularly applying their judgements to direct the system. The second, from a nonprofit called FutureHouse, goes a step beyond and has trained a system that can evaluate biological data coming from some specific classes of experiments.