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This completes the cycle. Researchers use GPT to write papers and submit them (can be fully automated) Journals review using GPT and (potentially) publish (ca
by justusw 4y ago
This completes the cycle.
Researchers use GPT to write papers and submit them (can be fully automated)
Journals review using GPT and (potentially) publish (can be fully automated)
GPT will create a borked summary and create fake citations for the next cycle of research. (again, can be fully automated)
Then, left on its own, we will have a bunch of robots worrying for us about impact factor and grant applications and we can get back to doing actual research again. Problem solved.
- tankenmate 4y agoIt doesn't take much imagination to realise that an AI generated echo chamber will be far more capable than a human echo chamber; a vicious unvirtuous circle. At least some of the newer AI detector tools might help here.
- carlmr 4y ago>At least some of the newer AI detector tools might help here. Isn't this just GAN training via the paper publishing industry
- mort96 4y agoWhat do you mean by "capable"? From everything I've seen, all these GPTs are extremely hilariously terrible at anything resembling logical reasoning, to the point where it has absolutely no trouble saying "1 pound of A is heavier than 2 pounds of B because A is denser than B" for the right values of A and B.
- pjc50 4y agoCapable at the thing which matters, which is getting funding by gaming grant metrics that only look at the (easily measurable) quantity of citations and not the (impossible to measure) quality.
- quickthrower2 4y agoSounds like an XKCD plot
- Kelteseth 4y agoIt is the plot of the last South Park episode, where the children didn't want to do their essays, so they cheated using chatGPT and their teacher didn't want to grade their work either and used chatGPT (more like wanted to, we didn't actually see it in the episode) to grade them.
- lordnacho 4y agoBest bit about that episode? Parts of it were written by ChatGPT. It's credited.
- febusravenga 4y agoI have impression that our very society relies on hard work of those who few who still didn't realize* you can cheat ... or find it repulsive. Anyway, I anticipate even deeper collapse of position of science and education as it will be area of heavy cheating - people will just move to other, saner occupations.
- redox99 4y agoI'm sure in many cases that's already happening.
- seqizz 4y agoAlmost: https://xkcd.com/810/ https://xkcd.com/810/
- dento 4y agoAlso: https://xkcd.com/978/ https://xkcd.com/978/
- xxs 4y agoCitogenesis: https://xkcd.com/978/ https://xkcd.com/978/ just replace wikipedia with GPT
- b3lvedere 4y agoRobots post it on their social media about their AI generated frustration -> Other robots start to generate AI likes -> Social media AI collects and targets the bots with ads -> Lots of bots communicate with lots of bots in favor of bots -> The feedback loop implodes social media -> Humans stop using it -> Peace.
- xxs 4y agoThe environmental effect of all robots activity will be pretty substantial but IF people drop social media, it'll be a massive win.
- noobermin 4y agoWhile academic publishing is broken, something worse is not necessarily better. I need to read papers to figure out what people are actually doing and how to use their results in my own research. It will not help me if everything is one day fake, even more so then the garbage we already need to wade through today.
- Der_Einzige 4y agoThat addage "worse is better" exists for a reason and is applicable here. Worse really is better.
- d0mine 4y agoProgrammers somehow can figure out what libraries to depend on, to contribute to without paying exuberant fees to the middleman.
- d0mine 4y agobtw, worse can be better https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Region-beta_paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Region-beta_paradox
- Iolaum 4y agoLoL, if there was a way to make paper results reproducible in this cycle maybe I wouldn't mind that much. Even better, give me a chatGPT version that reads a paper and creates a python notebook (or whatever else is appropriate) that reproduces a paper result. I m sure $job would pay for me to use that and evaluate new research faster for inclusion into our products.
- Jensson 4y ago> LoL, if there was a way to make paper results reproducible in this cycle maybe I wouldn't mind that much. Set temperature to 0 and the paper is mostly reproducible, you will get the same paper with the same prompt!!
- Iolaum 4y agoWell, if temperature is 0K I wouldnt be in a state where I can worry about it :o
- askvictor 4y agoAccelerando by Charlie Stross has much of the inner solar system converted into computronium, which mostly consists of legal and financial AIs battling other legal and financial AIs.
- BbzzbB 4y agoThat's a pretty funny version of paperclipping, somehow sounds even more probable tho.
- boringuser1 4y ago[dead]
- gpderetta 4y agosoon the AIs will relieve the humanity of the hardship of intellectual labor and and leave us to focus one the pleasures of physical work.
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