OpenAI’s Latest Breakthrough: AI That Comes Up With New Ideas

Even as artificial intelligence has made strides in summarizing research papers or solving mathematical problems, professionals in many fields still believed humans would be in charge of coming up with ideas for new discoveries.

Now AI is getting good at such brainstorming, too.

OpenAI is preparing to launch new AI models as soon as this week that can connect the dots between concepts from different fields to suggest new types of experiments involving anything from nuclear fusion to pathogen detection, according to three people who have tested the models but are not authorized to speak about it.