Science Journalists Find Chatgpt Is Bad at Summarizing Scientific Papers
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Science journalists tested ChatGPT's ability to summarize scientific papers and found it performed poorly, highlighting limitations in AI's understanding of complex scientific content.
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gdevenyi
3 months ago
I'm not sure I trust science journalists to summarize scientific papers either.
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