Empirical Research Assistance (ERA): From Nature publication to catalyzing Computational Discovery
Summary
Empirical Research Assistance (ERA) is a Google Research AI tool for expert-level scientific coding, published in Nature, enabling Computational Discovery via Gemini for Science. The post outlines ERA's capabilities, benchmark results, open-access apps, and the broader Computational Discovery platform, with links to related research, GitHub, and blog posts. It demonstrates AI-driven acceleration of scientific research and opens access through Google Labs.