Use language models to explore a space of possibilities
Strong E, DiGiammarino A, Weng Y, et al. Chatbot vs Medical Student Performance on Free-Response Clinical Reasoning Examinations. JAMA Intern Med. Published online July 17, 2023....
View ArticleReasonable-seeming people
How many other things do we all do, every day, simply because reasonable-seeming people have told us to? The post Reasonable-seeming people appeared first on /usr/space.
View ArticleResource: Wikipedia Library
I recently made my 500th edit to a Wikimedia project, and unlocked access to the Wikipedia Library (see above), which I didn’t even know existed. The library is a collection of paywalled resources that...
View ArticleConference: AMEE 2023 in Glasgow
I’ll be attending the AMEE 2023 conference in Glasgow from 27-30 Aug. I’ll be posting my thoughts and notes at this stream over the course of the conference, and I’ll share a few summaries afterwards...
View ArticleResearch: Meta’s latest AI model makes scientific PDFs machine-readable
Meta’s latest AI model makes scientific PDFs machine-readable https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.13418 Scientific knowledge is predominantly stored in books and scientific journals, often in the form of PDFs....
View ArticlePresentation: AI for research (University of the Western Cape research week)
This is a presentation that I gave at the opening of the University of the Western Cape research week (30 October 2023). Download the presentation. Overview (generated by Claude) This presentation...
View ArticleClaude, you are an expert peer-reviewer…
I recently completed a peer review for an academic journal, and as I was submitting it I wondered how Claude would perform if given the task. Since the article was anonymised, I didn’t think there’d be...
View ArticleJournals should be experimenting with LLMs in their editorial workflow
I recently wrote a post about using Claude to peer review an academic paper, and the decent job it did. Based on that experience, I started thinking about the probable impact on journal editorial...
View ArticleA trilogy of posts on using AI for academic articles
Earlier today I published a short series of posts on some ideas I had for using language models (e.g. ChatGPT and Claude) to help support academic writing. I didn’t plan to write a series of posts. I...
View ArticleSemantic Reader for intelligent skimming of academic papers
Semantic Reader is an “AI-powered augmented scientific reading application”. The problem that Semantic Reader aims to address are the “…many points of friction that break the flow of comprehension when...
View ArticleLink: The Strain on Scientific Publishing
https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.15884 Scientists are increasingly overwhelmed by the volume of articles being published. Total articles indexed in Scopus and Web of Science have grown exponentially in...
View ArticleOur World in Data is an incredible website
https://ourworldindata.org/ “Poverty, disease, hunger, climate change, war, existential risks, and inequality: The world faces many great and terrifying problems. It is these large problems that our...
View ArticleScopus AI: Elsevier introduces generative AI search for research papers
https://the-decoder.com/scopus-ai-elsevier-introduces-generative-ai-search-for-research-papers/ Academic publisher Elsevier launched Scopus AI, an AI platform that enables researchers and institutions...
View ArticleLink: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine: Cross-Sectional Study Among...
https://mededu.jmir.org/2024/1/e51247/ “There was widespread consensus (385/487, 74.9%) on the need for AI and AI ethics instruction in medical education, although the current offerings were deemed...
View ArticleLink: Ethical guidelines for generative AI in research
Lin, Z. (2024). Building ethical guidelines for generative AI in scientific research. Arxiv. This paper offers an initial framework by developing analyses and mitigation strategies across five key...
View ArticlePresentation: Generative AI for research
In this presentation that I gave for the African Doctoral Academy, I describe the capabilities and limitations of generative AI systems, and how they may impact academic research. I highlight...
View ArticleLink: The Strain on Scientific Publishing
https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.15884 Scientists are increasingly overwhelmed by the volume of articles being published. Total articles indexed in Scopus and Web of Science have grown exponentially in...
View ArticlePodcast – Breaking Boundaries: Democratizing Scientific Knowledge Using AI
https://www.cognitiverevolution.ai/breaking-boundaries-democratizing-scientific-knowledge-using-ai-with-gabe-gomes-of-coscientist/ Gabe Gomes, Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University,...
View ArticleResource: Using generative AI during a PhD
“This session will look at how a set of generative AI tools can be used to support various aspects of research, such as ChatGPT, Ellicit and DALL-E (although the final selection of tools will be made...
View ArticleLink: The Latest “Crisis” — Is the Research Literature Overrun with ChatGPT-...
https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2024/03/20/the-latest-crisis-is-the-research-literature-overrun-with-chatgpt-and-llm-generated-articles/ “Elsevier has been under the spotlight this month for...
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