A skeptical scientist says AI agents have changed what science workflows can do
sudoraohacker · x · 2026-07-23
A skeptical scientist says the latest agentic systems have changed his baseline for what AI can do in science.
- He says he has now run 200+ AI-for-science scenarios across chemistry, biology, and materials science.
- What surprised him most is not incremental improvement, but a qualitative shift: over just a few months, the systems moved from behaving like a toddler to something closer to an adult interlocutor.
- His broader point is that today’s agentic tools may be unlike the overhyped technologies of the past, because they are already navigating complex, multistep scientific protocols in the wild.
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