Immerse yourself in our latest podcast episode exploring the transformative role of artificial intelligence in scientific research. We uncover how AI is reshaping tasks from enhancing text structure to designing experiments and brainstorming ideas with tools like Perplexity, Elicit and ChatGPT. As AI becomes increasingly accessible, discover how it simplifies complex tasks with a single prompt-line approach. We also highlight crucial AI safety measures. This episode is helpful for scientists eager to leverage AI in their work for innovative breakthroughs. Tune in to see the future of scientific work today!
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In this podcast we discuss the impact of artificial intelligence on our work as scientists. We talk about how artificial intelligence has been used for things such as automatically segmenting figure panels in research papers, improving text and making it more formal or structured, designing and controlling experiments, brainstorming for projects, summarizing texts, identifying new ideas, making decisions, strategizing, and for aiding in leadership. We also discuss how this technology has become more accessible and that it can assist science in ways that have previously been limited.
1. AI can be used for literature search, summarization, identifying links and gaps, and predicting reviewer comments.
2. AI can assist with scientific research with tools like Perplexity, Elicit and ChatGPT.
3. ChatGPT should not be used for facts as it produces hallucinated output and is not a useful tool for identifying knowledge.
4. Perplexity is a good entry point for becoming knowledgeable about a topic, as it gives citable sources, and allows for highly specific questions to be asked.
5. Elicit is a search engine for scientific literature which provides a table of titles, authors, citations and a single sentence summary for papers.
6. Users can upload their own PDFs and have them read and summarized.
7. AI can help generate arguments and experiments, brainstorm, and generate images.
8. AI gives the user the benefit of bypassing oftentimes tedious sub menus or knobs to enable a single prompt-line approach.
9. AI safety measures like guiding it towards what is desired should be employed.
10. Enjoy! ;-)
