AI Research Agents Found a Novelty Trap They Couldn’t Escape
A large test of AI research agents found a stubborn tradeoff: familiar methods performed best, while novel ideas rarely survived first-round scoring.
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AI Research Ideas Traveled Far—but Stayed on Familiar Roads
A study of 524,308 AI-generated hypotheses finds they can stretch beyond nearby papers yet still follow science’s established paths.
How Scattered Light Found a Way to Do AI’s Pairwise Math
A real optical experiment found a way for scattered light to generate pairwise features resembling a core comparison in AI attention.