Hypothesis Generation

Brainstorming Is Cheap; Research Judgment Is Not Brainstorming with an LLM is easy. Ask for ten research ideas, wait a few seconds, and receive a confident menu of things that sound just plausible enough to be dangerous. Turn up the temperature and the machine becomes “creative.” Wonderful. We have successfully automated the whiteboard intern. ...

Clue by Clue: ProjectionBench and the Business of Testing AI Discovery Lab meeting. A scientist has a topic, a research question, and not much else. No dataset yet. No final chart. No results section quietly waiting in the appendix. Just a question and the uncomfortable business of guessing what nature might do. ...