Ability to make a Question
Research and development is generally not as economically valuable as people assume and it's significantly harder to automate R&D jobs than it might naively seem. Most AI value will come from broad automation.
Research Agents frequently utilize Evolutionary algorithm likely because this field has relatively fewer cost constraints and requires maximizing diverse approaches in method exploration.
AI Research Agents
AI Research Agent Benchmarks
AI Research Tools
Software Security
Google AI co-scientist multi agent system with Elo Score with self-improvement

