Google debuts Gemini for Science, a set of experimental tools that help researchers generate hypotheses, conduct testing, and understand scientific literature
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Discussion
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@pushmeet
Pushmeet Kohli
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The results of the research happening in my team @GoogleDeepMind have convinced me that the next era of scientific discovery will be aided by AI agents acting as force multipliers for human ingenuity. That's why I'm proud to introduce Gemini for Science - a collection of
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@vivnat
Vivek Natarajan
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Out of all the announcements at @Google I/O today, this is the one closest to my heart - our foundational research on Co-Scientist was published in @Nature and we announced its broad availability via @GeminiApp for Science. When you are suffering from a disease, time is [video]
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@erictopol
Eric Topol
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A big day for multi-agent AI to accelerate biomedical discovery, hypothesis generation, designing experiments with proof points of new candidate drugs (cancer, fibrosis, macular degeneration, antimicrobial resistance, and more) 2 @Nature reports @GoogleDeepMind @FutureHouseSF
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@emollick
Ethan Mollick
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Got to play with a little of this before launch as well. My experience as a social scientist was that it was more bioscience focused right now, but I think Google has been the leading lab in releasing serious AI tools to accelerate science & expect to see them improve fast.
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@deryatr_
Derya Unutmaz
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Gemini for Science! I've been saying this for some time: we have now entered a new phase in science, I call it Science 3.0, with research becoming completely AI-assisted! Google DeepMind is pushing this to the next frontier with very useful AI models and modules!
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@keranrong
Keran R
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Congrats, team! 🥳 And this is my first @Nature paper and my first paper with my ex-boss @demishassabis as well! 🥳 (well, if we don't count for @GeminiApp papers lol)
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Gemini for Science: AI experiments and tools for a new era of discovery