James Zou
Stanford University
3:30 PM
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AI Agents to Accelerate Scientific Discoveries
AI agents - large language models equipped with tools and reasoning capabilities - are emerging as powerful research enablers. This talk will explore how agentic AI can accelerate scientific discoveries. I’ll first introduce the Virtual Lab - a collaborative team of AI scientist agents conducting in silico research meetings to tackle open-ended research projects. As an example application, the Virtual Lab designed new nanobody binders to recent Covid variants that we experimentally validated. Then I will introduce Paper2Agent, a framework to automatically convert passive research papers into interactive AI agents. Finally I will discuss learnings from Agents4Science, the first conference where the authors and reviewers are primarily AI systems.
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