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ReviewNature2023

Scientific discovery in the age of artificial intelligence.

Hanchen Wang, Tianfan Fu, Yuanqi Du, Wenhao Gao, Kexin Huang, Ziming Liu, Payal Chandak, Shengchao Liu, Peter Van Katwyk, Andreea Deac and 20 more

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In one paragraph

Review in Nature, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 398 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
398citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

398 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  20. The rise of large language models and the direction and impact of US federal research funding.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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338 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

30 authors.

Hanchen Wang *Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-1691-024X
Tianfan Fu *Department of Computational Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA.
Yuanqi Du *Department of Computer Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.
Wenhao GaoDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Kexin HuangDepartment of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
Ziming LiuDepartment of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Payal ChandakHarvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1097-803X
Shengchao LiuMila - Quebec AI Institute, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-2030-2367
Peter Van KatwykDepartment of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3512-0665
Andreea DeacMila - Quebec AI Institute, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Anima AnandkumarDepartment of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA.
Karianne BergenDepartment of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA.
Carla P GomesDepartment of Computer Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4441-7225
Shirley HoCenter for Computational Astrophysics, Flatiron Institute, New York, NY, USA.
Pushmeet KohliGoogle DeepMind, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-7466-7997
Joan LasenbyDepartment of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Jure LeskovecDepartment of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5411-923X
Tie-Yan LiuMicrosoft Research, Beijing, China.
Arjun ManraiDepartment of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Debora MarksDepartment of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9388-2281
Bharath RamsundarDeep Forest Sciences, Palo Alto, CA, USA.
Le SongBioMap, Beijing, China.
Jimeng SunUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA.
Jian TangMila - Quebec AI Institute, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Petar VeličkovićGoogle DeepMind, London, UK.
Max WellingUniversity of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Linfeng ZhangDP Technology, Beijing, China.
Connor W ColeyDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8271-8723
Yoshua BengioMila - Quebec AI Institute, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-9322-3515
Marinka ZitnikDepartment of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. marinka@hms.harvard.edu.ORCID 0000-0001-8530-7228

Funding

Measuring Neonatal RegionalizationR01HD108794 · NICHD · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI Jochen Profit, JEANNETTE A ROGOWSKI · 2023 to 2026
$2.8M
NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD108794
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Artificial intelligence (AI) is being increasingly integrated into scientific discovery to augment and accelerate research, helping scientists to generate hypotheses, design experiments, collect and interpret large datasets, and gain insights that might not have been possible using traditional scientific methods alone. Here we examine breakthroughs over the past decade that include self-supervised learning, which allows models to be trained on vast amounts of unlabelled data, and geometric deep learning, which leverages knowledge about the structure of scientific data to enhance model accuracy and efficiency. Generative AI methods can create designs, such as small-molecule drugs and proteins, by analysing diverse data modalities, including images and sequences. We discuss how these methods can help scientists throughout the scientific process and the central issues that remain despite such advances. Both developers and users of AI toolsneed a better understanding of when such approaches need improvement, and challenges posed by poor data quality and stewardship remain. These issues cut across scientific disciplines and require developing foundational algorithmic approaches that can contribute to scientific understanding or acquire it autonomously, making them critical areas of focus for AI innovation.

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Artificial IntelligenceResearch DesignDatasets as TopicDeep LearningUnsupervised Machine Learning

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