Well, no, because what I’m referring to isn’t even news, it’s research. I’m an adjunct professor and trying to get old articles doesn’t even work, even when they’re readily available publicly. The linked article here is referencing citations and it doesn’t get more citation-y than that. It doesn’t change that when you ask differently, either, because LLMs aren’t good at that even if tech bros want it to be.
Now, the information itself could be valid, and in basics it usually is. I was at least able to use it to get myself some basic ideas on a subject before ultimately having to browse abstracts for what I need. Still, you need the source of you’re doing anything serious and the best I’ve got from AI are just authors prevalent in the field which at least is useful for my own database searches.
I understand your experience and have had it myself. It’s also highly dependent on the model you use. The most recent ChatGPT4.5 for instance, is pretty good at providing citations. The tech is being developed fast.
I don’t doubt that it’ll get better, although with the black box nature of these types of models, I’m not sure if it’ll ever reach perfection. I understand neural networks, it’s not exactly something you can flip the hood of and take a look at what’s giving you weird results.
Well, no, because what I’m referring to isn’t even news, it’s research. I’m an adjunct professor and trying to get old articles doesn’t even work, even when they’re readily available publicly. The linked article here is referencing citations and it doesn’t get more citation-y than that. It doesn’t change that when you ask differently, either, because LLMs aren’t good at that even if tech bros want it to be.
Now, the information itself could be valid, and in basics it usually is. I was at least able to use it to get myself some basic ideas on a subject before ultimately having to browse abstracts for what I need. Still, you need the source of you’re doing anything serious and the best I’ve got from AI are just authors prevalent in the field which at least is useful for my own database searches.
I understand your experience and have had it myself. It’s also highly dependent on the model you use. The most recent ChatGPT4.5 for instance, is pretty good at providing citations. The tech is being developed fast.
I don’t doubt that it’ll get better, although with the black box nature of these types of models, I’m not sure if it’ll ever reach perfection. I understand neural networks, it’s not exactly something you can flip the hood of and take a look at what’s giving you weird results.