Accelerating science with human-aware artificial intelligence

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Artificial intelligence (AI) models trained on published scientific findings have been used to invent valuable materials and targeted therapies, but they typically ignore the human scientists who continually alter the landscape of discovery. Here we show that incorporating the distribution of human expertise by training unsupervised models on simulated inferences that are cognitively accessible to experts dramatically improves (by up to 400%) AI prediction of future discoveries beyond models focused on research content alone, especially when relevant literature is sparse. These models succeed by predicting human predictions and the scientists who will make them. By tuning human-aware AI to avoid the crowd, we can generate scientifically promising 'alien' hypotheses unlikely to be imagined or pursued without intervention until the distant future, which hold promise to punctuate scientific advance beyond questions currently pursued. By accelerating human discovery or probing its blind spots, human-aware AI enables us to move towards and beyond the contemporary scientific frontier.

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2023

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2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:7

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Nature human behaviour - 7(2023), 10 vom: 13. Okt., Seite 1682-1696

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Englisch

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Sourati, Jamshid [VerfasserIn]
Evans, James A [VerfasserIn]

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Date Revised 23.10.2023

published: Print-Electronic

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10.1038/s41562-023-01648-z

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NLM359440169