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0 pointsJimDabell7mo ago0 comments

> I'm also a researcher and agree wholeheartedly with the article.

The article says:

> Yet, every time I tried to get LLMs to perform novel research, they fail because they don’t have access to existing literature on the topic.

You say:

> LLMs can maybe help you sift through existing literature

> they can be used or background research in hypothesis generation by finding pairs of related terms in the literature

As far as I can see, these two positions are mutually exclusive. Aren’t you disagreeing with the article?

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tovej7mo ago

No, helping with chores is not the same as "performing research", it has limited utility for minor tasks, it is not essential and it does not even necessarily have a positive productivity impact. To illustrate the point, when I use vim to write LaTeX, would you say that vim is "performing research"?

JimDabellOP7mo ago

The relevant part of what I quoted was not “performing research” it was “they don’t have access to existing literature”.

tovej7mo ago

That part we also agree on, generating hypotheses is done on the basis of existing literature, lit review (& related reasoning) is done on the basis of existing literature. The blog author is talking about reasoning in the context of a new research topic.

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0 pointsJimDabell7mo ago0 comments

> I'm also a researcher and agree wholeheartedly with the article.

The article says:

> Yet, every time I tried to get LLMs to perform novel research, they fail because they don’t have access to existing literature on the topic.

You say:

> LLMs can maybe help you sift through existing literature

> they can be used or background research in hypothesis generation by finding pairs of related terms in the literature

As far as I can see, these two positions are mutually exclusive. Aren’t you disagreeing with the article?

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tovej7mo ago

JimDabellOP7mo ago

The relevant part of what I quoted was not “performing research” it was “they don’t have access to existing literature”.

tovej7mo ago

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