For example: say I want to find out about using bright light therapy to attenuate afternoon energy dips… How would you approach such an inquiry

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    3 months ago

    Also Ai is your friend in interpreting and summarising the paper, but be careful it isn’t perfect

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      3 months ago

      MMmm.

      No. Don’t do this unless you want wildly wrong results. Summarizing a scientific paper and extracting its key conclusions using a GPT is not a trivial thing. It might work for faking your way through an undergraduate level project, but its fundamentally antagonistic towards developing real understanding. There is no replacement for just reading the paper and its citations until you understand it. Even if a GPT can summarize a scientific paper (and I have volumes of data to show they can’t with out significant guard rails) reading or memorizing “just the conclusions” is a great way to fool yourself and others into thinking you understand something. You have not done the thing if you do only this thing. If you want to truly understand it, there are no shortcuts.