How AI is revolutionising science

From The Economist.

AI is driving a transformation across all fields of science, from developing drugs for incurable diseases and improving the understanding of animal communication to self-driving labs. Could this prompt a new golden age of discovery?

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00:00 – How AI is revolutionising science
02:53 – Drug discovery
04:31 – AlphaFold
05:30 – Adoption of AI in science
07:08 – Animal communication
09:26 – Scientific fraud
11:03 – Self-driving labs
14:36 – Future of AI in science

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