Google has unveiled an AI agent called 'AI co-scientist' to assist scientists and researchers in generating novel hypotheses and research proposalsThe AI co-scientist is a multi-agent AI system designed to mirror the reasoning process of the scientific methodIt uses a coalition of specialised agents to generate, evaluate, and refine hypotheses, resulting in high-quality and novel outputsScientists can interact with the AI co-scientist system, providing their own ideas and feedback to enhance the research process