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Review
. 2021 Jan 8;2(1):100162.
doi: 10.1016/j.patter.2020.100162.

The AI for Scientific Discovery Network

Samantha Kanza  1 , Colin Leonard Bird  1 , Mahesan Niranjan  2 , William McNeill  3 , Jeremy Graham Frey  1
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The AI for Scientific Discovery Network

Samantha Kanza et al. Patterns (N Y). .

Abstract

The Artificial Intelligence and Augmented Intelligence for Automated Investigation for Scientific Discovery Network+ (AI3SD) was established in response to the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) late-2017 call for a Network+ to promote cutting-edge research in artificial intelligence to accelerate groundbreaking scientific discoveries. This article provides the philosophical, scientific, and technical underpinnings of the Network+, the history of the different domains represented in the Network+, and the specific focus of the Network+. The activities, collaborations, and research covered in the first year of the Network+ have highlighted the significant challenges in the chemistry and augmented and artificial intelligence space. These challenges are shaping the future directions of the Network+. The article concludes with a summary of the lessons learned in running this Network+ and introduces our plans for the future in a landscape redrawn by COVID-19, including rebranding into the AI 4 Scientific Discovery Network (www.ai4science.network).

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What is AAI? AAI is the outcome of applying a range of techniques that come from several diverse and traditionally quite different disciplines all brought together in our case to support an AI-enhanced problem-solving endeavor in the physical and life sciences.
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A Timeline of the Development of AI and Its Establishment of a Role in Scientific Discovery from the 1950s to 2020
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References

    1. ai3-science-network [Internet] http://www.ai3sd.org/home
    1. Home - EPSRC website [Internet] https://epsrc.ukri.org/
    1. Home - UK Research and Innovation [Internet] https://www.ukri.org/
    1. Automating Science Discovery Call for Network Plus - EPSRC website [Internet] https://epsrc.ukri.org/funding/calls/automatingsciencediscoverycallforne...
    1. EPSRC Artificial and Augmented Intelligence for Automated Scientific Discovery Grant [Internet] https://gow.epsrc.ukri.org/NGBOViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/S000356/1 Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, Polaris House.

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