If we need AI to summarize research papers, we have lost. To me, this is more evidence that research now is mainly conducted for the sake of producing research,

If we need AI to summarize research papers, we have lost. To me, this is more evidence that research now is mainly conducted for the sake of producing research, rather than producing knowledge that actually improves life in some way. Even if we look at scientific knowledge merely for the sake of intellectual amusement, this sort of research has gone far past that: extremely specialized papers are really not that interesting except in regard to playing the gmae of research. And I'm speaking from the perspective of a pure mathematician who has read the most specialized an abstract papers and has published several. Yes, you can "get interested" in them simply because they're part of the social game in academia, but for the vast majority of people, even with the capability to understand them, they are far past the point of stimulating natural curiosity. This is all rather ridiculous, because we are devoting so much time and resources to do something so meaningless. It would all collapse on itself it it weren't for the incremental and short-term economic advantages brought on by 1% of the research, which is mainly in turn about developing unsustainable ways of life.