DeepMind's Roberta Rai on superhuman scientific discovery: AI agents plateau, humans leap

At RAIS2026, Roberta Rai from Google DeepMind discussed how AI agents plateau quickly while humans make conceptual leaps. Her path: RL for science's 'Move 37', novelty-rewarded evolutionary search, and DiscoBench (400M+ tasks).

• AI agents
• benchmark
• Google DeepMind
• RL
• scientific discovery