I think a more interesting discussion that should be had is, whether we can automate this kind of "simple research" with AI agents and get anything interesting as a first step out of it just from the pure scale that they can work through vs humans - and that would still be an improvement over a basic "grid search" through possibilities. (but then you would have to actually start investigating for real)
But acting like this is scientific discovery is massively overstating what was done here.
I think a more interesting discussion that should be had is, whether we can automate this kind of "simple research" with AI agents and get anything interesting as a first step out of it just from the pure scale that they can work through vs humans - and that would still be an improvement over a basic "grid search" through possibilities. (but then you would have to actually start investigating for real)
But acting like this is scientific discovery is massively overstating what was done here.