It's so hard to figure out which scientific claims really hold up to scrutiny.

It's so hard to figure out which scientific claims really hold up to scrutiny.

For decades, a corner of the biology community has divined the truth by way of blind challenges. Now, a group of those organizers, including CASP of Alphafold fame, is turning its attention to the vagaries of the scientific literature, with a little help — they hope — from AI:

https://www.statnews.com/2026/03/17/beacon-casp-coalition-tackle-science-reproducibility-crisis/

#health #healthcare #medicine #AI #artificialintelligence #science #research #biology

It's so hard to figure out which scientific claims really hold up to scrutiny.

For decades, a corner of the biology community has divined the truth by way of blind challenges. Now, a group of those organizers, including CASP of Alphafold fame, is turning its attention to the vagaries of the scientific literature, with a little help — they hope — from AI:

https://www.statnews.com/2026/03/17/beacon-casp-coalition-tackle-science-reproducibility-crisis/

#health #healthcare #medicine #AI #artificialintelligence #science #research #biology

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@brittanytrang Ah, the search for certainty.... I am amused that they are trying to use massive stochastic systems, to address a combination of probabilistic, conceptual, and systemic problems. But good luck!

@chiasm If you give it a read, you'll see that these are the last people on earth who would simply throw AI at a problem and say it'll fix it -- they've made it their business to disprove people's inflated claims since the '90s. Their strategy is actually pretty interesting and a decent use of AI.

@brittanytrang no I did read it! I'm amused at a deeper conceptual level. I'm sure they'll come up with something, that will work for some problems in some areas.