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God please don’t let them touch Google Scholar.

I can’t imagine the cost this would have on scientific producivity in the West.

Very small team, only still exists because they are a rounding error to the CFO on the balance sheet, but otherwise they could go at any time.

Oddly their biggest strength is being irrelevant to the decision makers, if the bean counters noticed the few million they are losing on running Scholar there will be ads + Gemini all over it.

on other hand i would love a Gemini finetuned on all papers or ability to refer to papers in my prompt when researching an idea.

right now, I download pdf and upload it to chatgpt to bounce ideas.

That sounds like a terrible idea to me not gonna lie

why

In my experience as a published academic author all the LLM will make up all kinds of plausible papers I “wrote” that don’t exist, academic positions I’ve never held, and the like.

Even if you give it a paper directly I’d not believe it to be reliable. Maybe it could help search for papers, but that’s it.

Are you familiar with NotebookLLM?

What is that about

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