We really do live on the verge of a new era of scientific progress. Case in point, a company called Lila Sciences was started two years ago with about $200 million in seed funding, but until very recently all of its activities have been kept under the radar. So what is Lila Sciences doing? They are training an AI in the scientific method and then prompting it to create new things using a special automated laboratory that the AI itself can operate.
Lila’s mission is to achieve “scientific superintelligence” that is able to help scientists generate ideas and hypotheses and then design and conduct experiments to test those hypotheses, CEO Geoffrey von Maltzahn, Ph.D., said in the release.
“To achieve this, we must solve the hard problems to allow AI to autonomously and in a scalable manner run each step—from AI models generating an idea to reducing it…
