AI Knowledge and Reasoning: Emulating Expert Creativity in Scientific Research

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We investigate whether modern AI can emulate expert creativity in complex scientific endeavors.

• We introduce novel methodology that utilizes original research articles published after the AI's training cutoff, ensuring no prior exposure, mitigating concerns of rote memorization and prior training.
• The AI are tasked with redacting findings, predicting outcomes from redacted research, and assessing prediction accuracy against reported results.
• Analysis on 589 published studies in four leading psychology journals over a 28-month period, showcase the AI's proficiency in understanding specialized research, deductive reasoning, and evaluating evidentiary alignment--cognitive hallmarks of human subject matter expertise and creativity.