AI bills can be as big as a postdoc salary. Is the cost worth it?

Research laboratories are weighing up the costs and benefits of paying for artificial-intelligence tools. Credit: J Studios/Getty James Zou has spent “well over US$100,000” on artificial intelligence in the past year. “These models are very useful for researchers, for coding, for analysis, for literature summaries,” says Zou, a biomedical-data scientist who leads the AI for Science Laboratory at Stanford University in California. …