Sakana AI's AI Scientist research is published in Nature

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Its AI Scientist research was published in Nature — reported that a paper that passed review at an ICLR 2025 workshop had an average score of 6.33, above 55% of human-written papers

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AI-generated papers passing review entered the formal scholarly record. The debate over how to evaluate automated research got going in earnest

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