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Re:Ask HN: Is it possible to create an uncensoring "science ... by jruohonen on Monday November 13, 2023 @04:37AM (#38248544)
> For starters I would like to have a chatbot who knows the scientific literature in a certain field, like climate science.

Mission impossible as most of the relevant literature is paywall'ed.

> Then I would like to be able to ask questions which are answered with pure scientific facts only, just based on scientific literature.

Mission impossible because LLMs cannot evaluate facts. Nor can they do source criticism.

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Re:Ask HN: Is it possible to create an uncensoring "science ... by gus_massa on Monday November 13, 2023 @07:39AM (#38249500)
@GP: most paywall are weak.

Anyway, reading a paper is quite difficult. Some results expresed like facts in the abstract or conclusions are not fully suported in the data. You should always read the full paper. For now, it's difficult for an AI to distinguish facts from bulshit.

(I remember a few physics paper that prove strange things, but when you reed the proof it has an aditional hypothesis in the middle of the proof. The hypothesis makes sense in the physics context, but in math all the hypothesis must be in the text of the theorem.)

Re:Ask HN: Is it possible to create an uncensoring "science ... by ChrisMartin33 on Monday November 13, 2023 @10:57AM (#38251628)
You are right of course, every scientific paper, even peer reviewed, even published in the "best" journals, can be total BS.

I thought about just analyzing the conclusions. And to pick out whether they write "one might draw the conclusion" or "we have proven that...." I think that could be useful, although I am aware that in reality they might still have proven nothing.

Re:Ask HN: Is it possible to create an uncensoring "science ... by gus_massa on Monday November 13, 2023 @11:10AM (#38251812)
In my area, I always ask who is the author team. There are a few and many are well known.

If it's team A, I'm almost sure it's correct. But I check anyway.

If it's team B then "Press X To Doubt". It's probably not wrong, but perhaps oversold.

Re:Ask HN: Is it possible to create an uncensoring "science ... by james-revisoai on Monday November 13, 2023 @07:09PM (#38257100)
Have a look at "Consensus" App.