AI 何时才算真正做出科学发现？Anthropic 生物实验室成果引争议
原标题：When can we say AI made a scientific discovery?
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Anthropic 宣布其分子生物学实验室中由 950 个 Claude 智能体组成的系统在 21 小时内发现了一个围绕已知酶的重复模式，并称其「令人联想到 CRISPR」。但多位生物学家批评这并非真正的科学发现，指出找到基因簇和重复序列往往是容易的部分，真正困难的是弄清其功能；哥本哈根大学研究员 Mario Rodríguez Mestre 称其团队早已发现该模式，并质疑 Anthropic 是否从其 Claude 对话中学习，Anthropic 予以否认。文章还提及 OpenAI 宣称其智能体解决了一个百万美元数学问题后遭到的类似质疑，认为 AI 公司急于宣称「发现」会损害公众对真正科学突破的判断。
正文节选
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Last Wednesday, Anthropic announced that earlier this year it had launched a molecular biology lab, where Claude agents read and conjecture about hard biology problems and human scientists run experiments on what they report. And this AI-powered lab, the company said, had made its first discovery. To understand what Anthropic says its system did, imagine you’r