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One of the potential uses of AI that I have most wanted is automated citation lookup and validation. First check if the citation references a real thing. Then
by Isamu 1y ago
One of the potential uses of AI that I have most wanted is automated citation lookup and validation.
First check if the citation references a real thing. Then actually read and summarize the referenced text and give a confidence level that it says what was claimed.
But no, we have AI that are compounding the problem. That says something about unaligned incentives.
- pyrale 1y ago> One of the potential uses of AI that I have most wanted is automated citation lookup and validation. Also one of the things AI is likely the least suited for. best I could imagine an AI can do is offer sources for you to check for a given citation.
- Isamu 1y ago>Also one of the things AI is likely the least suited for. I agree, if we are using the current idea of AI as language models. But that’s very limiting. I’m old enough to remember when AI meant everything a human could do. Not just some subset that is being deceptively marketed as potentially the whole thing.
- pyrale 1y agoThe thing is, we have plenty of examples where systems that are not labeled as ai vastly outperform humans at searching knowledge bases. A google-like search tool would probably be all you need for citations if 1) Google hadn’t killed accuracy in favor of ad placement and 2) the rest of the world hadn’t poisoned the dataset in hopes of getting picked up by Google as a first page result. Now the hard problem isn’t to search so much as to curate an un-polluted dataset.