Can AI automate AI R&D yet?

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Existing evidence shows that AI can perform software engineering tasks relevant to AI research, dataset creation,1 and other tasks, including open-ended optimization of defined metrics (autoresearch). MethodologyInnovationEval tests whether AI can independently devise an ML innovation that matches the performance of a recent human-developed innovation the AI has not seen. An exciting recent result used the NanoGPT challenge as a benchmark task for AI R&D.

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