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Four ways Google Research scientists have been using Empirical Research Assistance

The Google Research Science team Since introducing Empirical Research Assistance in the fall, Google Research scientists have been using it to address real-world applications in epidemiology, cosmology, atmospheric monitoring, and neuroscience, providing a hint of AI’s transformational capabilities to accelerate scientific discoveries. Quick links ERA blog post ERA paper FluSight Forecast Hub Covid-19 Forecast Hub Cosmology paper CO2 presentation Neuroscience paper Share Copy link × AI’s capabilities to advance scientific discovery are growing every week, with outcomes that promise not just to enable breakthrough discoveries but to transform how science is done. In September, we released a preprint introducing Empirical Research Assistance (ERA) to help scientists generate expert-level empirical software. That included novel solutions to six diverse and challenging benchmark problems in fields ranging from cell biology to neuroscience. …

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29 Apr 2026 21:07 UTC