How should the advent of large language models affect the practice of science?

no code implementations • 5 Dec 2023 • Marcel Binz, Stephan Alaniz, Adina Roskies, Balazs Aczel, Carl T. Bergstrom, Colin Allen, Daniel Schad, Dirk Wulff, Jevin D. West, Qiong Zhang, Richard M. Shiffrin, Samuel J. Gershman, Ven Popov, Emily M. Bender, Marco Marelli, Matthew M. Botvinick, Zeynep Akata, Eric Schulz

For this opinion piece, we have invited four diverse groups of scientists to reflect on this query, sharing their perspectives and engaging in debate.

Publication bias and the canonization of false facts

1 code implementation • 2 Sep 2016 • Silas B. Nissen, Tali Magidson, Kevin Gross, Carl T. Bergstrom

We find that when readers do not know the degree of publication bias and thus cannot condition on it, false claims often can be canonized as facts.

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