Plenty of discussion about AI hallucinations, but can... AI correct human errors that have persisted throughout the scientific record? My latest for @nature.com looks at an interesting presentation at a recent conference www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- A Zhejiang Lab chemist's AI predicting boiling points clashed with a 75-year-old reference database; manual checks showed the database, not the model, was wrong.
- The same AI spotted further mistakes in older papers and reference books, including a typo and incorrect values of century-old boiling-point measurements.
- Researchers caution AI fact-checkers are not reliable on their own because the models make mistakes like humans do and still need manual oversight.