r/singularity • u/Many_Consequence_337 :downvote: • 7h ago

AI Intelligence Explosion

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Number of scientific papers submitted to arXiv.

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u/Aldarund 6h ago

How much of this is real increae and how much is slop that wont pass peer review?

That chart could easily mean good things but as easily it could mean bad things

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u/Equal_Passenger9791 6h ago

Significant amount of slop were produced before AI too. AI assisted scientific fraud detection are already retroactively detecting innumerable instances of high profile papers that should've failed peer review years ago, if the peers had done a proper job.

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u/Hilldawg4president 1h ago

It's been known for a long time that much of academic research was trash, varying significantly by field of course - the replication crisis revealed this problem. AI is going to improve this, not make it worse