[streamfunk191]

It’s a shame the article doesn’t talk more about the possible benefits of AI in academia. The ability for researchers to spot new patterns, discover new areas of research. The way information is generated, disseminated and then read by other researchers in this space is fairly prosaic if you think about it. Causally is a company I think is trying something in this space

[izacus]

That's because it's not how it's used right now. Just like elsewhere, it's primarly used to generate bullsh*t and flood journals with low quality generated content. Which now need to deal with this deluge of sewage drowning good articles.

[hashtag-til]

Yep, I know quite a few gaming the system just like this, selling the AI dream...

[aleph_minus_one]

> It’s a shame the article doesn’t talk more about the possible benefits of AI in academia. The ability for researchers to spot new patterns, discover new areas of research.

Honestly, which publicly available AIs are capable of doing that?

At least not the publicly available LLM AIs: I asked those quite many questions about scientific topics, but they could not give me any answer that helped me - it was a complete waste of time.