> You're not going to see AlphaFold write compelling science fiction.

Yes? But not many biology PhDs do that either.

> I'm talking about, which is building a model that forms its own hypothesis, designs its own experiments, and contributes to the wide and deep wealth of knowledge that, crucially, goes well beyond the scope of its training data.

A few weeks ago we saw LLMs do the first half of that. I think AlphaFold demonstrates the last.

Don't get me wrong, I trust the person who told me these are not good papers, but it does do those things: https://sakana.ai/ai-scientist/