Japanese technology startup Sakana AI has achieved a significant milestone by having an artificial intelligence (AI)-generated scientific paper pass a peer-review process. The company announced the news on Wednesday.
“We’re proud to announce that a paper produced by the AI Scientist-v2 passed the peer-review process at a workshop in ICLR (International Conference on Learning Representations), a top AI conference,” the company wrote on X.
The paper, created by the upgraded AI Scientist-v2, went through the same rigorous peer-review process as papers submitted by human researchers. Sakana AI collaborated with the University of British Columbia and the University of Oxford on this project.
AI Scientist is an AI program developed by Sakana AI. It is designed to autonomously generate scientific research from initial idea to finished report. The original version was introduced in August.
Sakana AI plans to release further details about the enhanced AI Scientist-v2 in the near future.
“We believe the next generations of The AI Scientist will usher in a new era in science,” the company stated, highlighting the considerable advances AI has made.
The company added, “But this is just the beginning. We expect AI to continue to improve, potentially exponentially. At some point in the future, AI will probably be able to generate papers at and beyond human levels.”
