Episode
Can AI Invent or Just Help Scientists Work Faster? with Richard Socher - #783
The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence) · Nov 3, 2026 · 49 min
AI can help scientists write code, analyze data, and draft papers. But can it generate the ideas that lead to new discoveries? Richard Socher, former chief scientist at Salesforce, founder of You.com, and co-founder of Recursive, joins us to explore the move from AI assisting researchers to AI conducting research. Starting with AI improving AI, we examine what it takes to propose ideas, run…