Machine Learning's Next Trick Will Transform How Research Is Done

Though research is a slow moving and rigid process, one study shows that the rate of scientific study has exploded in the last 50 years. According to the paper, humanity's scientific output now doubles every nine years. In specific areas like healthcare, the doubling rate is even faster -- as much as every 3 years currently with an expected increase to every 73 days by the early 2020s. For overwhelmed researchers navigating the growing stack of science literature -- the value isn't in having so much new information, but finding relevant insights when they need them. According to Jacobo Elosua, a co-founder of Iris AI -- a Singularity University portfolio company -- the research process is very often tedious and unfruitful.