[pngwen]

I'm a professor of computer science, and I use AI to conduct literature reviews all the time. It's actually one of the handful of things that AI really excels at. So really, I think I would be more inclined to teach students how to do use AI effectively rather than discourage it. I know I would have loved to have it when I was working on my PhD, and I haven't authored a paper in the past 2 years that did not include help from LLMs.

I tend to use Notebook LM to gather and analyze papers, then I synthesize some notes, outline the ideas and prompt it to give citations to the outline. Then I take that and write my literature review narrative, which I then hand over to claud for proofreading.

End to end, the process is much faster than back when I did it manually. Just like typesetting a paper in latex is faster than the hot metal process of 50 years ago. The bottom line for me is this: You should always use every tool at your disposal when doing real work, and research is real work.