Stanford's Jure Leskovec on AI Doing Science: Agents Find Patterns, Hypothesize, and Falsify

jure · x · 2026-08-13

In the Night Science podcast, Stanford professor Jure Leskovec discusses with Itai Yanai how AI agents find patterns in large datasets, generate hypotheses, and try to falsify them with more data, taking on tedious work humans avoid. They also explore human scientists' unique strengths like taste, judgment, intuition, and emotion, and whether AI opens a new continent of discoveries.

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