Are 'AI co-scientist' tools actually useful for scientists?

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Are AI scientist tools actually useful?

Yesterday, Google and FutureHouse each published papers in Nature describing AI “co-scientists” (in the words of Google), or “multi-agent system(s) for automating scientific discovery” (in FutureHouse’s words).