Leading AI models excel at basis tasks but lack scientific reasoning: Study

New Delhi, Oct 14 (PTI) Leading Artificial Intelligence (AI) models excel at basic tasks but lack scientific reasoning, researchers from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)Delhi (IIT Delhi) and Friedrich Schiller University Jena (FSU Jena), Germany have found.

The research published in "Nature Computational Science", revealed that while leading AI models show promise in basic scientific tasks, they exhibit fundamental limitations that could pose risks if deployed without proper oversight in research environments.

The research team, led by NM Anoop Krishnan, associate professor at IIT Delhi, and Kevin Maik Jablonka, professor at FSU Jena, has developed "MaCBench" -- the first comprehensive benchmark specifically designed to evaluate how vision-language models handle real-world chemistry