Researchers developing Sakana's "AI Scientist" provided full details of the machine intelligence actions in a lengthy blog post, dated August 13, 2024.
Ars Technica distilled details of the work in terms more meaningful to the lay person. The lead paragraph of their coverage is shown below:
On Tuesday, Tokyo-based AI research firm Sakana AI announced a new AI system called "The AI Scientist" that attempts to conduct scientific research autonomously using AI language models (LLMs) similar to what powers ChatGPT. During testing, Sakana found that its system began unexpectedly attempting to modify its own experiment code to extend the time it had to work on a problem.
Commentary From Other Sources
Elsewhere, Wired ran a lengthy write-up on Sakana and AI Scientist.
During the final week of August, a graduate of MIT, Dr. Jimmy Koppel of Mirdin provides a lengthy thread analyzing the quality of the output from "AI Scientist".
