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But Springer Nature, which publishes thousands of scientific journals, says it has no problem with AI being used to help write research — as long as its use is properly disclosed:
Springer Nature, the world's largest academic publisher, has clarified its policies on the use of AI writing tools in scientific papers. The company announced this week that software like ChatGPT can't be credited as an author in papers published in its thousands of journals. However, Springer says it has no problem with scientists using AI to help write or generate ideas for research, as long as this contribution is properly disclosed by the authors.
"We felt compelled to clarify our position: for our authors, for our editors, and for ourselves," Magdalena Skipper, editor-in-chief of Springer Nature's flagship publication, Nature, tells The Verge. "This new generation of LLM tools — including ChatGPT — has really exploded into the community, which is rightly excited and playing with them, but [also] using them in ways that go beyond how they can genuinely be used at present."
[...] Skipper says that banning AI tools in scientific work would be ineffective. "I think we can safely say that outright bans of anything don't work," she says. Instead, she says, the scientific community — including researchers, publishers, and conference organizers — needs to come together to work out new norms for disclosure and guardrails for safety.
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(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Friday February 03 2023, @05:22PM (4 children)
Chat GPT is a mere tool, it is going to replace humans in all unimportant fields of human endeavor.
If Chat GPT does it better, why are we wasting our lives trying to compete? Humans used to prepare the fields for planting by hand, then they made tools to make it easier, then they harnessed animal power to pull tools like a plough, then they employed the internal combustion engine in tractors to replace the animals, and now we have all manner of automated farm equipment. Growing food is an important endeavor, but the direct preparation of the field is not an important field of human endeavor.
The real question is: social upheaval. How are the rich going to remain rich if they can't keep the poor masses working for a living?
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(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Friday February 03 2023, @08:56PM (3 children)
Tools have ALWAYS replaced humans and animals, from the steam engine to the steam shovel to the computer (see Hidden Figures, about human computers and NASA). One steam shovel put a hundred laborers out of work.
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(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Friday February 03 2023, @09:52PM (2 children)
And, is manually digging a hole that a steam shovel can dig "important" human endeavor?
The problem I see is: people have flocked to "simple" jobs in droves. Job descriptions like: "All you have to do is memorize all this, then execute the decision tree we've laid out for you." Those jobs are toast.
Problem solving, analytical thinking, coloring outside the lines, those are still "important" human endeavors... "Hello and thank you for calling MegaCorp, how may I direct your call?" not so much.
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(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Saturday February 04 2023, @04:17PM (1 child)
And, is manually digging a hole that a steam shovel can dig "important" human endeavor?
It was before that steam shovel was invented. It's the only way they could build bridges and such for thousands of years, and to any human except the very rich, getting a paycheck is the most important of endeavors. That steam shovel cost fifty laborers their jobs and further enriched their employer, but its invention was still a worthy endeavor.
The problem I see is: people have flocked to "simple" jobs in droves. ...Problem solving, analytical thinking, coloring outside the lines, those are still "important" human endeavors...
When the simple job pays as well as the complex job, you'll have that. That's why pure communism can't work on a large scale, although it can in a tribal setting. Then there's the fact that some people are simply not smart enough to design that new bridge and have to dig the foundation.
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(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Saturday February 04 2023, @07:55PM
>any human except the very rich, getting a paycheck is the most important of endeavors.
I think I started this off with social upheaval being the biggest challenge...
>some people are simply not smart enough to design that new bridge and have to dig the foundation.
For well over 100 years, most bridges can be selected from a catalog, all you need to do is provide proper foundations to set them on, and the steam shovel and it's successors have dug those foundations.
We do, however, have a lot more telephone customer assistants than in 1800, that may change with this latest advance.
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