AI-generated scientific hypotheses lag human ones

[L. Wayne Buinis]

I've been using AI "Liner" (https://getliner.com/) successfully for a year now. It accurately locates references for my scientific investigations. Today I noticed this "Hypothesis Generator" option.:

https://getliner.com/agent/hypothesis-generator

Then, I read this article:

https://www.science.org/content/article/ai-generated-scientific-hypotheses-lag-human-ones-when-put-test

It concludes with a "what if . . . " 

. . . eventually AI comes up with most hypotheses and scientists are left to carry out the parts of the experiments that can’t be automated with robots? But if that’s the case, it removes “the most fun part of science” and leaves scientists to conduct lab work that “is sometimes brain-numbing,” West says. “Science is a social process that involves humans. You take that out, then what is it?”

        - Jevin West, data scientist at the University of Washington

Lonny