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How scientists are using Claude to accelerate research and discovery

How scientists are using Claude to accelerate research and discovery

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Comments (53)

  • jadenpeterson
    Not to be a luddite, but large language models are fundamentally not meant for tasks of this nature. And listen to this:> Most notably, it provides confidence levels in its findings, which Cheeseman emphasizes is crucial.These 'confidence levels' are suspect. You can ask Claude today, "What is your confidence in __" and it will, unsurprisingly, give a 'confidence interval'. I'd like to better understand the system implemented by Cheeseman. Otherwise I find the whole thing, heh, cheesy!
  • alsetmusic
    Call me when a disinterested third-party says so. PR announcements by the very people who have a large stake in our belief in their product are unreliable.
  • falloutx
    Of course this comes from Anthropic PR. Stanford basically has a stake in making LLMs and AI hype so no wonder they are the most receptive.
  • anon
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  • username223
    Pairs well with this: https://hegemon.substack.com/p/the-age-of-academic-slop-is-u...Taking CV-filler from 80% to 95% of published academic work is yet another revolutionary breakthrough on the road to superintelligence.
  • LegitShady
    oh look another advertisement for anthropic
  • black_13
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  • bpodgursky
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  • desireco42
    By paying Anthropic large sums of money ?!?Funny you say that.