ChatGPT and other AI tools could disrupt scientific publishing
Just to plug that we have built MirrorThink.ai: an AI assistant specifically designed to help professional researchers in their day-to-day work.<p>(I am aware that self-promotion is allowed but somewhat frowned-upon in HN. I believe this is relevant to the context and I am particularly qualified to comment on it. But I&#x27;ll strive to be as transparent as possible.)<p>We have intentionally steered away from assisting with writing work for the reasons outlined in the article. Our focus has been to save time in keeping up with their field: making literature reviews much faster, summarizing recent discoveries in each researchers&#x27; niche area of interest, and gathering how others have tackled similar highly-specialized research problems. Grounding LLMs in scientific fact and always providing verifiable sources.<p>We have spent many years before this building a business around our &quot;Map of Science&quot; at Scitodate, so we have strong connections with the community and a lot of experience in this domain. Both in terms of how science is done and how to reliably extract valuable knowledge from millions of documents with NLP. We now have one of the largest datasets of papers, patents, funding grants... Updated on a daily basis. With plenty of enrichment, connections and aggregations: we have done a lot of in-house research on disambiguation and entity-linking. We particularly have focused on mapping out the expertise, interests and achievements of all professional scientists, as well as the institutions they have worked at.