This research explores how to use AI to generate scientific hypotheses that can be used to make predictions about things like whether an online review is fake or if text was written by a human or AI. The researchers combined information from existing scientific papers with insights found in data to create hypotheses. They tested this approach on several tasks, including figuring out if hotel reviews were deceptive, detecting if content was created by AI, identifying signs of mental stress in social media posts, and predicting which arguments are more persuasive. The results showed that combining information from scientific literature and data led to more accurate predictions than using either source alone. The researchers also found that their AI-generated hypotheses were helpful in improving human decision-making in these tasks.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.17309