Oxford's Yarin Gal: LLMs are poor at real science without scaffolding
Oxford's Yarin Gal argues LLMs are poor at science without scaffolding: in his tests, an AI research assistant collapsed open-ended hypotheses into known work and misread papers, requiring human correction.
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