as in test
a procedure or operation carried out to resolve an uncertainty
Benjamin Franklin's famous experiment in which he flew a kite in a thunderstorm to see if lightning and electricity were identical
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His goal is to automate the drudgery of laboratory research, making experiments faster, more accurate and easier to perform.
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Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 17 Feb. 2026
Jason reminds Daisy there’s no guarantee Alesia will do well in interior, either; this is just an experiment.
—Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 17 Feb. 2026
Some of those experiments are conducted in tunnels where nuclear testing once occurred.
—Geoff Brumfiel, NPR, 17 Feb. 2026
That could lead to a wave of new products, said Yohei Nakajima, a partner at Untapped Capital whose 2023 open source experiment called BabyAGI helped demonstrate how LLMs could autonomously generate and execute tasks—which helped kick off the modern AI agent movement.
—Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 17 Feb. 2026
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Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 17 Feb. 2026
Jason reminds Daisy there’s no guarantee Alesia will do well in interior, either; this is just an experiment.
—Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 17 Feb. 2026
Some of those experiments are conducted in tunnels where nuclear testing once occurred.
—Geoff Brumfiel, NPR, 17 Feb. 2026
That could lead to a wave of new products, said Yohei Nakajima, a partner at Untapped Capital whose 2023 open source experiment called BabyAGI helped demonstrate how LLMs could autonomously generate and execute tasks—which helped kick off the modern AI agent movement.
—Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 17 Feb. 2026
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With initial tests scheduled by the end of 2026, the partnership aims to achieve operational functionality in the first two years, followed by further development and expansion.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
12 Feb. 2026
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Nissen and his fellow researchers’ test subjects took around 45 minute naps on average.—
Hunter Boyce,
AJC.com,
11 Feb. 2026
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