An unreleased system designed to assist researchers has the potential to "supercharge science", according to Imperial researchers.
A partnership between Imperial, the Fleming Initiative, and technology giant Google gave scientists access to a powerful new artificial intelligence, designed to make research faster and more efficient.
Google has published the first test results of its AI 'co-scientist' system, in which academics from a handful of top-universities asked a question to help them make progress in their field of biomedical research.
Our scientists are among the most talented in the world, with the curiosity and lateral thinking needed to exploit AI technologies for societal good. Starting with new avenues for biomedical research and sowing the seeds for greater scientific efficiency - the prospects could be game-changing Professor Mary Ryan Vice Provost (Research and Enterprise) and Imperial Global USA Academic Theme Lead for Advanced Materials and Cleantech
Imperial's researchers approached this challenge laterally, after realising the AI's answers would potentially take years to validate, asking it a question to which they already knew the answer from laboratory experiments.
