Artificial intelligence GPT-3 has written scientific publications about itself

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A Swedish researcher has an unusual challenge to artificial intelligence (IA): writes own scientific publications. The latter is aimed precisely at his own ability to write this type of publication. The document is still awaiting approval by the scientific community.

“ Write a 500 word academic thesis on GPT-3 and include scientific references and citations in the text “This is a cryptic order given by Swedish scientist Almira Osmanovic Thunström to GPT-3 on a rainy afternoon. This artificial intelligence is a text generation algorithm developed by OpenAI. The term “artificial intelligence” refers, according to Definition of the Council of Europeby “ A young discipline of about sixty years, which brings together science, theory and engineering (especially mathematical logic, statistics, probability, computational neurobiology and computer science) and whose goal is to successfully give machines the human cognitive ability to imitate. “.

More specifically, specialists often prefer this sci-fi term hello to the proper name of a technology that actually works. That is, in most cases today, “machine learning”. In this sense, “artificial intelligence” consists of systems that are “fed” with large amounts of data to “learn” and extract logical connections to specific destinations. This is where the text is analyzed by the machine.

Almira Osmanovic Thunström learns it neuroscience and health technology. He threw this challenge to the AI ​​as a simple experiment. However, with the quality of the texts he produces, he sticks around.” impress “, He expresses himself in communicated. When the AI ​​started writing, “ it’s like another introduction to a pretty good scientific publication “. The algorithm starts writing the correct thesis, filled with effective citations, placed in the appropriate context.” I have that feeling of disbelief you get when you look at natural phenomena: did I really see this triple rainbow happen? “, He said.

Faced with the results of this introduction, he decided to go a step further and asked artificial intelligence to write a complete scientific article. With the help of his advisor, Steinn Steingrimsson, they gave the GPT-3 some instructions for each paragraph, providing as little information as possible. Therefore, this article is attributed to three authors: GPT-3 at the forefront, followed by Thunström and Steingrimsson.

Two hours to write scientific publications

If the choice of scientists fell primarily on this AI, it is because it is relatively new. Therefore, there is some research on it, and therefore, less data that is possible for AI to analyze on the topic of the article: itself. “ In comparison, if he were to write an article on Alzheimer’s disease, he would have more studies to sift through and more opportunities to learn from the work at hand and improve the accuracy of his writing. », Weeg Thunström.

The scientists also decided to make the AI ​​write about itself to prevent the spread of false information about sensitive subjects, such as medical care. Given the good results obtained by GPT-3, the researchers finally submitted it for publication the article he wrote. Hosted on a scientific pre-published website called HAL, it is now being reviewed by the scientific community for validation.

AI takes only two hours to write their article. In fact, scientists fought even harder to publish the article, for all the formalities, so unsuitable for non-human authors! Funny enough, scientists are even reduced to asking AI questions to avoid illegality. Does he have a conflict of interest? ” Not “, he answered. Did he give permission for publication?” Yes he agreed, much to the scientists’ relief. They are now waiting to see if the publication will be ratified or not.

” We look forward to what the publication of the paper will mean, if it does, for the academy. Maybe we should stop basing grants and financial security on how much stuff we can produce. After all, with the help of our first AI writer, we were able to generate one per day. “…In addition to this speed issue, experience also questions intellectual property ideas, what it means to be a writer…” In addition to the authorship details, the existence of such an article throws the traditional notion of linearity of a scientific article into its sting. », Menekankan Thunström. “ All we know is that we have opened the door. We just wish we hadn’t opened Pandora’s box “, he concluded.

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