Re:Artificial intelligence can revolutionise science
by ben_w on Friday September 15, 2023 @03:16PM
(#37527893)
> I have to question to the value of looking over existing papers given the current replication crises, is using an LLM to review existing papers just going to enable us to do more bad science faster? Does that do anything for us?
I think the problems with replication are a separate axis to the problem that there is too much being published for anyone to actually read.
AI in general — never mind LLMs, even the much ones running search engines — help with the content overload.
> This sounds basically of just asking a GPT to suggest ideas for experiments?
I think the car analogy here is that if what you've suggesting was google maps, what the article is suggesting is Level 5 autonomy with no steering wheel and an opaque wall instead of a windscreen.
I think the problems with replication are a separate axis to the problem that there is too much being published for anyone to actually read.
AI in general — never mind LLMs, even the much ones running search engines — help with the content overload.
> This sounds basically of just asking a GPT to suggest ideas for experiments?
I think the car analogy here is that if what you've suggesting was google maps, what the article is suggesting is Level 5 autonomy with no steering wheel and an opaque wall instead of a windscreen.
I have absolutely no idea how hard such a level of automation might be to actually implement, not least because of Moravec's paradox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec's_paradox