Artificial intelligence was supposed to accelerate discovery, but a growing number of researchers say it is flooding science with junk. Instead of careful experiments and hard-won insights, they ...

Both fields are in high demand, pay well, and lead to exciting, future-proof careers. If you're deciding between becoming a data scientist or an AI engineer, the choice often comes down to what ...

Some companies are working to remedy the issue. Some AI chatbots rely on flawed research from retracted scientific papers to answer questions, according to recent studies. The findings, confirmed by ...

In late 2023, a data scientist at Stanford University pulled back the curtain on a startling trend: Academics were beginning to turn to artificial intelligence platforms like ChatGPT for paper reviews ...

An AI scientist can work independently for hours while doing research that would take humans months to complete, and has made several “novel contributions” to science, its creators claim – but others ...

Large language models such as ChatGPT are boosting paper production, particularly for scientists who are not native English ...

An international team of researchers has released an artificial intelligence system capable of autonomously conducting scientific research across multiple disciplines — generating papers from initial ...

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The UNC School of Data Science and Society and the School of Information and Library Science will be consolidating into a new school focused on artificial intelligence. According to a Q and A webpage ...

There’s sloppy science, and there’s AI slop science. In an ironic twist of fate, beleaguered AI researchers are warning that the field is being choked by a deluge of shoddy academic papers written ...