Researchers Rebut "Theory Is All You Need": AI Can Already Design Experiments
Responding to Felin & Holweg's position paper "Theory Is All You Need," which argues only humans can run theory-experiment loops, a rebuttal notes that active learning, reinforcement learning and causal modeling already enable AI to design experiments.
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