As artificial intelligence shows off diagnostic chops, scientists reckon with the way forward

Since consumer-facing LLMs burst onto the scene in 2022, researchers have been chucking a variety of diagnostic tests their ...
MIT Technology Review

AI models are using material from retracted scientific papers

Some companies are working to remedy the issue. Some AI chatbots rely on flawed research from retracted scientific papers to answer questions, according to recent studies. The findings, confirmed by ...
The Conversation

A new ‘AI scientist’ can write science papers without any human input. Here’s why that’s a problem

Scientific discovery is one of the most sophisticated human activities. First, scientists must understand the existing knowledge and identify a significant gap. Next, they must formulate a research ...
Ars Technica

Science journalists find ChatGPT is bad at summarizing scientific papers

Summarizing complex scientific findings for a non-expert audience is one of the most important things a science journalist does from day to day. Generating summaries of complex writing has also been ...
New Scientist

All major AI models risk encouraging dangerous science experiments

The use of AI models in scientific laboratories risks enabling dangerous experiments that could cause fires or explosions, researchers have warned. Such models offer a convincing illusion of ...