Sakana AI announces The AI Scientist, with Oxford and UBC
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The AI Scientist announced (jointly with the University of Oxford and the University of British Columbia) — taking an idea to a paper cost about $15 per paper, and it autonomously carried out the full life cycle of machine learning research with no human involvement beyond the initial setup
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Turned the research-automation discourse into a concrete figure: $15 per paper
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