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๐Ÿค– ๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—”๐—œ ๐—ฆ๐—ฐ๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜๐—ถ๐˜€๐˜: ๐—”๐—ด๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜๐—ถ๐—ฐ, ๐—ณ๐˜‚๐—น๐—น๐˜†-๐—ฎ๐˜‚๐˜๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฐ๐—ต ๐—ฝ๐—ถ๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—น๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฒ ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ ๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ $๐Ÿญ๐Ÿฑ ๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐—ฝ๐—ฎ๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ

Researchers have just created an AI system that ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐—ป ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ฑ๐˜‚๐—ฐ๐˜ ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜๐—ถ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฐ๐—ต ๐—ฝ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—ท๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐˜๐˜€ ๐—ณ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—บ ๐˜€๐˜๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐˜ ๐˜๐—ผ ๐—ณ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ถ๐˜€๐—ต, ๐—ฝ๐—ผ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜๐—ถ๐—ฎ๐—น๐—น๐˜† ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐˜ƒ๐—ผ๐—น๐˜‚๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ถ๐˜‡๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—ต๐—ผ๐˜„ ๐˜€๐—ฐ๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜๐—ถ๐—ณ๐—ถ๐—ฐ ๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐˜€๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐˜€ ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ.

It doesn't just assist with specific tasks - it automates the entire research process, from generating ideas to writing and reviewing papers.
1 - brainstorm novel research directions, 2- write and execute code for experiments & visualize results, get references, and even 3- write up findings in a full academic paper format!

And it can do all this for under $15 per paper! ๐Ÿคฏ

๐—ž๐—ฒ๐˜† ๐—ถ๐—ป๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ด๐—ต๐˜๐˜€:
๐Ÿง  Generates novel research ideas across multiple topics (e.g. diffusion modeling, transformers, learning dynamics aka โ€œgrokkingโ€)
๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป Uses open-source coding assistant Aider to implement ideas and run experiments. This is especially important since this agentic assistant can iterate if it fails somewhere.
๐Ÿ“Š Visualizes results and plans follow-up experiments (up to 5 rounds)
โœ๏ธ Writes full academic papers, including finding references using Semantic Search API
๐Ÿ•ต๏ธ Runs a simulated peer review process to evaluate paper quality
๐Ÿ’ฐ Total cost per paper is under $15. This system can generate "hundreds of interesting, medium-quality papers" in just a week !

๐—ฆ๐˜๐—ถ๐—น๐—น ๐—ป๐—ผ๐˜ ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ฑ๐˜† ๐˜๐—ผ ๐—ณ๐—ถ๐—น๐—น ๐—œ๐—–๐—Ÿ๐—ฅ ๐˜„๐—ถ๐˜๐—ต ๐—ฝ๐—ฎ๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜€:
๐Ÿ” Ideas generated in one domain tend to be repetitive across different runs, and even different language model
๐Ÿ‘€ Does not use vision capabilities to fix visual issues in plots
๐Ÿ’ญ Models occasionally hallucinate entire results tables
โ‡’ Only few of the generated papers would actually meet the threshold for acceptance at a top AI conference

๐Ÿ‘‰ย Read their paper: The AI Scientist: Towards Fully Automated Open-Ended Scientific Discovery (2408.06292)
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