Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt Bets AI Will Shake Up Scientific Research
Future House, a nonprofit, plans to build an AI system that can analyze research papers and respond to scientific questions.
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Eric Schmidt is funding a nonprofit that’s focused on building an artificial intelligence-powered assistant for the laboratory, with the lofty goal of overhauling the scientific research process, according to interviews with the former Google CEO and officials at the new venture.
The nonprofit, Future House, plans to develop AI tools that can analyze and summarize research papers as well as respond to scientific questions using large language models — the same technology that supports popular AI chatbots. But Future House also intends to go a step further.