Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own?
An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.
TL;DR
- Anthropic claims its AI agents discovered new enzymes with potential for biotechnology.
- Scientists are casting doubt on the originality of Anthropic's claimed discovery.
- A computational biologist, Mario Rodríguez Mestre, states his team has been studying these enzymes for four years.
- Mestre's team has shared findings with Anthropic's AI models while using them for tasks like coding and drafting manuscripts.
- Mestre questions whether Anthropic's AI independently reasoned to the results or was guided by his team's shared research.
- He is concerned that his team's research was used to train Anthropic's AI models.