0:00.0	Nature.
0:02.0	In an experiment.
0:05.0	Why is it blight so far?
0:08.0	Like, it sounds so simple.
0:09.0	They had no idea.
0:11.0	But now the data's...
0:12.0	I find this not only refreshing, but at some level astounding.
0:20.0	Nature.
0:22.2	Nature.
0:25.9	Welcome back to the Nature podcast.
0:31.5	This time, the AI scientists that could generate your next hypothesis.
0:35.2	And using LIDAR to sea round corners.
0:36.7	I'm Benjamin Thompson.
0:38.4	And I'm Nick Petrich Howell.
0:53.2	In the most recent era of AI, chatbots have had a huge impact on science.
0:59.7	Many researchers use them to help with coding, writing of their articles, and even idea generation.
1:06.2	Simultaneously, some researchers have raised concerns about energy consumption, that over-reliance on these tools could affect our cognition, and that hallucinated references to papers that don't exist are polluting the literature.
1:15.2	Love or hate AI, the advances in this field continue apace.
1:21.3	And now there are several new AI scientists in the pages of nature this week that could go even further, being designed
1:29.3	specifically to assist scientists in a cornerstone of scientific work, coming up with testable
1:35.9	and rigorous hypotheses.
1:38.4	And in this case, they haven't just got ideas from chatbots that have combed the literature.
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