Scientific research has become one of the most promising applications for artificial intelligence.
Its also become one of the most divisive.
Across the world,techfirms are directing AIs analytical power into tools foracademics.
Gradually, theyre entering every stage of the research process.
Investors have taken a growing interest in the progress.
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The continents current leader isIris, an Oslo-based scale-up that today announced a 7.6mn Series A funding round.
Iris flagship product is amachine learningengine that analyses academic research.
Users prompt the tool to search for the information they need.
The system then categorises, summarises, and systematises millions of documents to deliver actionable insights.
Abildgaard is also bullish about the products accuracy.
She claims to have a remedy for one of AIs worst afflictions: hallucinations.
Fighting AI hallucinations
A major flashpoint erupted after Meta launched Galactica in November 2022.
Unfortunately, it also produced endless streams of AI-generated nonsense.
The results caused a social media uproar.
The reaction spooked Meta.
Just three days after launching Galactica, the companypulled the plugon the tool.
As the controversy swirled, Iris was promoting a solution to these errors.
To substantiate the results, the system also provides verifiable sources for the outputs.
With these safeguards in place, Iris promises todramatically reducehallucinations.
Up next is a chat assistant that will guide researchers through the system and personalises the workflow.
Yet accuracy remains the priority, Abildgaard said, because factual grounding is paramount in research.
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Story byThomas Macaulay
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He leads our coverage of European tech and oversees our talented team of writers.
Away from work, he enjoys playing chess (badly) and the guitar (even worse).
