The organizations that will build skyscrapers in the age of AI are the ones willing to strengthen their foundations, not the ones trying to build taller on top of Venice.​ ...

AI agents can instead model the iterative, highly contingent process of actual research. While tools like AlphaFold apply a powerful approach to a limited question, agents are inherently generalists.

This artificial intelligence system largely accomplished the task it was built to solve, and researchers outside DeepMind ...