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Experts say many AI 'research' papers are complete slop

Artificial intelligence was supposed to accelerate discovery, but a growing number of researchers say it is flooding science with junk. Instead of careful experiments and hard-won insights, they ...
Every now and then, researchers at the biggest tech companies drop a bombshell. There was the time Google said its latest quantum chip indicated multiple universes exist. Or when Anthropic gave its AI ...
A fresh college graduate who now works as a machine learning engineer recently launched a website designed to make reading ...
Apple’s machine-learning group set off a rhetorical firestorm earlier this month with its release of “The Illusion of Thinking,” a 53-page research paper arguing that so-called large reasoning models ...
On Tuesday, Tokyo-based AI research firm Sakana AI announced a new AI system called “The AI Scientist” that attempts to conduct scientific research autonomously using AI language models (LLMs) similar ...
The Observer has compiled a list of 2025 guides, tutorials, and manuals designed to support psychological scientists as they ...
In AI research, progress is often equated with size. But a small team at Samsung’s AI lab in Montreal has taken another approach that is proving to show great promise. Their new Tiny Recursive Model ...
Compared with its Big Tech rivals, Apple’s pace of A.I. development is cautiously slow. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Just as the hype around artificial general intelligence (A.G.I.) reaches a fever ...
Some companies are working to remedy the issue. Some AI chatbots rely on flawed research from retracted scientific papers to answer questions, according to recent studies. The findings, confirmed by ...
The inherent intricacy and technical nature of research papers’ content make reading them a challenging undertaking. These research articles can be difficult to understand, especially for non-experts ...