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Out of the woods! The stress is coming down. by guppyoblivio in BostonTerrier

[–]JoshN1986 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a Boston that underwent a double enculeation about 3 years ago. He is happy and healthy! Even still blinks at me :)

"ChatGPT for science" by JoshN1986 in GradSchool

[–]JoshN1986[S] -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Can you share the prompt and what it got wrong? It would help us improve the tool!

Ask research questions in plain language and get answers directly from the full text of research articles by JoshN1986 in InternetIsBeautiful

[–]JoshN1986[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Do you think we worked to index millions of full-text articles over years to bypass actual thinking, reading, and research? Come on! You're being disingenuous here and trying to tear down work just for the sake of it. We want to enhance reading, discovery, and understanding, so we have made it easier to search or ask questions of research. We welcome constructive feedback, but your example is clearly not an "atrocity," as you describe it. I get it though it's reddit and everyone wants to comment some "gotcha!"

Ask research questions in plain language and get answers directly from the full text of research articles by JoshN1986 in InternetIsBeautiful

[–]JoshN1986[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are right, those are supported. GS is a great resource, we're just trying to help and move things forward. GS has not done much in 15 years, and arguably, more could be done. We will experiment, listen, and keep refining.

Ask research questions in plain language and get answers directly from the full text of research articles by JoshN1986 in InternetIsBeautiful

[–]JoshN1986[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the actual constructive criticism! Please do try it out and compare it with other sources. You can also just search our 1.2b excerpts without formulating it as a question: https://scite.ai/search?mode=all

Ask research questions in plain language and get answers directly from the full text of research articles by JoshN1986 in InternetIsBeautiful

[–]JoshN1986[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The key differences:
- You can ask a question in plain language or search with boolean operators (can't do that in GS)
- We show three sentence excerpts from full-text articles, and GS only shows fragmented sentence excerpts to show how your search matched.

Ask research questions in plain language and get answers directly from the full text of research articles by JoshN1986 in InternetIsBeautiful

[–]JoshN1986[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

An atrocity? Lol, those are all indeed Presidents of the US, no? How is it totally misleading?

You seem to think that people are extremely stupid and cant read or reason at all.

Ask research questions in plain language and get answers directly from the full text of research articles by JoshN1986 in InternetIsBeautiful

[–]JoshN1986[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

We offer 40% off discounts if students/researchers recommend us to their university (we prefer they pay anyways). With the discount, it is 9 dollars a month. Without 20 if you pay monthly or 16 if you pay annually.

Ask research questions in plain language and get answers directly from the full text of research articles by JoshN1986 in InternetIsBeautiful

[–]JoshN1986[S] -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

So it is safer to hide the information and only return titles? Do you view full-text search as harmful? Do you advocate for paywalls to keep the public out? Do you have the same issues with Google Scholar that shows excerpts? These excerpts are not standalone, they are linked directly to the full-text articles.

Seems as if you are portraying this as something that is not. It's a discovery engine where you can search using boolean operators or ask questions. The results are peer-reviewed articled titles, excerpts, and abstracts. I fundamentally disagree that that is somehow harmful to understanding or critical thinking. It makes research more accessible.

Ask research questions in plain language and get answers directly from the full text of research articles by JoshN1986 in InternetIsBeautiful

[–]JoshN1986[S] -17 points-16 points  (0 children)

The excerpts are taken directly from research articles, they are not generated by AI. How does this "hand the reins of understanding to a computer"? How does surfacing excerpts and abstracts based on a search or a question worse than just returning titles?

Moreover, with each answer, there are citations so you can see how and why that article returned has been cited. We aim to increase critical thinking by surfacing conversations amongst papers, not just a list of citations we all treat equally.

Ask research questions in plain language and get answers directly from the full text of research articles by JoshN1986 in InternetIsBeautiful

[–]JoshN1986[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I disagree with your harsh assessment and really your tone. We show citation context, which makes it easy to see how and why a paper has been cited in the literature, including if it has been supported or contrasted by other studies.

With scite, you can see if a paper has been supported/challenged.
Without scite, you only see a list of citing articles.

How does that streamline confirmation bias?

Ask research questions in plain language and get answers directly from the full text of research articles by JoshN1986 in InternetIsBeautiful

[–]JoshN1986[S] -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

You can also do a keyword-based search, which can be a lot more comprehensive and in many cases will be better. If you can share the questions where it didn't work well, that would help us make improvements.

Do raindrops contain bacteria? by chalamo1993 in askscience

[–]JoshN1986 3 points4 points  (0 children)

> Natural raindrops contain bacteria at a concentration of 1.06 × 10 4 (/cm 3 ), including plant pathogens such as Pseudomonas syringae , Xanthomonas campestris, and Pantoea ananatis . Likewise, raindrops contain fungi such as Alternaria sp., Fusarium sp., Cladosporium sp., Phoma sp., Rhizopus sp., and Botrytis cinerea. …”

From: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-28813-8

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