AI system writes scientific papers for £12

The AI Scientist uses advanced LLMs to conduct and document research autonomously.
Sakana AI's new tool, 'The AI Scientist,' enables fully autonomous research at a fraction of traditional costs.

Japanese startup Sakana AI has unveiled The AI Scientist, an advanced system capable of fully autonomous scientific research. Collaborating with the University of Oxford’s Foerster Lab and experts from the University of British Columbia, Sakana AI has developed a groundbreaking tool that enables large language models (LLMs) to generate research ideas, execute experiments, and draft scientific papers independently.

The AI Scientist offers a significant leap forward in automated scientific discovery. It utilises frontier LLMs to not only write code and visualise results but also to ensure the quality of its output through a simulated peer-review process. This innovation marks a new era in how scientific research could be conducted.

Each research paper generated by the AI Scientist costs less than £12, making it an affordable option for researchers. An automated reviewer has been designed to evaluate the generated papers, further streamlining the research process.

In addition to the AI Scientist, Sakana AI has also introduced EvoSDXL-JP, a model capable of generating Japanese-style images ten times faster. Available on HuggingFace, it serves as a tool for research and educational purposes.

Why does it matter?

If AI can draft scientific papers as SakanaAI has shown, numerous questions will be opened, including: What will the future of scientific publications be? What will be the future of science? How can humans compete with machine intelligence? These questions are not just conceptual and philosophical.

They impact the core of the scientific world. At Diplo, we have been developing the KaiZen publishing approach, which combines just-in-time AI writing with more reflective human inputs.