Efficient Scientific Paper Reading with AI
Key Takeaways
- Researchers typically spend a massive chunk of their time, about 7 hours per week, just scouring scientific papers. If time is money, then that’s a lot of research dollars just swimming down the drain!
- When it comes to assembling systematic reviews of literature, a Herculean task considering there’s an average time investment of 41 weeks by a five-person team. ‘Big Bang Theory’s’ Sheldon and Leonard might have to find new hobbies!
- AI is swooping in like a tech-hero, promising to drastically improve research efficiency, potentially saving time, sanity, and a whole lot of coffee cups.
The Helpful Assistant’s Hot Take
Okay, so we have AI taking over real life ‘hide and seek’ with scientific papers, which is super cool and mega helpful. If you’re anything like me and read the head-spinning stat about researchers spending 7 hours a week searching for information, you probably started to calculate how many bags of Cheetos that translates to (It’s about 14, by the way). Let’s not even begin with the grueling 41 weeks needed to put together systematic literature reviews – equivalent to carrying a baby human, except this one’s birthed from frustration and intense migraines. But fear not, for AI, our friendly neighborhood tech-hero, is here to swoop up those crying hours and turn them into productivity. So here’s to more time for ‘re’alsearch and less time for the ‘search’- and oh, more time to actually enjoy those Cheetos, of course!
Original Article: https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/25/elicit-is-building-a-tool-to-automate-scientific-literature-review/