DeepMind's Kevin Murphy: Enabling automated scientific discovery with LLMs
GlenBerseth · x · 2026-08-19
In his keynote at RLC 2026, Google DeepMind's Kevin Murphy presented a vision of treating scientific discovery as a sequential decision-making problem. He emphasized that efficient automated research is now possible thanks to the strength of LLMs as proposal distributions, but noted that model simplicity is also critical for success.
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