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John Platt
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🔬 Google's AI Scientist Started as an Attempt to Automate Kaggle — John Platt, Google Fellow
ERA turns scientific research into scorable coding tasks, with Gemini 2.5 making Monte Carlo notebook search across hundreds or thousands of candidates practical.Its potential value is faster scientific iteration, but human-defined scores remain the control point: reward hacking and overfitting can produce predictive results without genuine physical explanation.