[vitalnodo]

With a tool like this, you could imagine an end-to-end service for restoring and modernizing old scientific books and papers: digitization, cleanup, LaTeX reformatting, collaborative or volunteer-driven workflows, OCR (like Mathpix), and side-by-side comparison with the original. That would be useful.

[vessenes]

Don’t forget replication!

[olivia-banks]

I'm curious how you think AI would aide in this.

[vessenes]

Tao’s doing a lot of related work in mathematics, so I can say that first of all literature search is a clearly valuable function frontier models offer.

Past that, A frontier LLM can do a lot of critiquing, a good amount of experiment design, a check on statistical significance/power claims, kibitz on methodology..likely suggest experiments to verify or disprove. These all seem pretty useful functions to provide to a group of scientists to me.

[noitpmeder]

Replicate this <slop>

Ok! Here's <more slop>

[olivia-banks]

I don't think you understand what replication means in this context.

[NateEag]

I think they do, and you missed some biting, insightful commentary on using LLMs for scientific research.