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Can AI review the scientific literature — and figure out what it all means?

Artificial intelligence could help speedily summarize research. But it comes with risks.
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  1. Helen Pearson
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When Sam Rodriques was a neurobiology graduate student, he was struck by a fundamental limitation of science. Even if researchers had already produced all the information needed to understand a human cell or a brain, “I’m not sure we would know it”, he says, “because no human has the ability to understand or read all the literature and get a comprehensive view.”

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Nature 635, 276-278 (2024)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-03676-9

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