[killjoywashere]

At some point, someone is going to do this with scientific literature. But tune it for hypothesis generation. Then we just need robots to run the experiments until we find the fountain of youth.

[thaeli]

Alternatively, for optimizing publications rather than optimizing research, there's SCIgen (https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/archive/scigen/) which keeps getting accepted to questionable journals..

[visarga]

It's actually been done protein folding, not text. AI suggests designs which are being tested in the lab.

[someguyorother]

It's also been done with chemical synthesis by turning synthesis into a game and then using Alpha-like techniques on it: http://www.compchemhighlights.org/2018/03/planning-chemical-...

[bigbird-media]

Actually I remember reading MIT did it in the early 2000s with some basic algorithms and I think it may have worked.

But looking at what I made, I'm pretty sure what you're describing is possible.