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How AI is Flooding Science with Forgettable Research

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Erik J Larson
Aug 19, 2024
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If you haven’t heard, a team of researchers at Sakana AI in Japan teamed with colleagues at the University of Oxford and the University of British Columbia have released “The AI Scientist,” an LLM based system that automates scientific research from idea to the publication of an “acceptance level paper”:

The AI system uses LLMs to mimic the scientific re…

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