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Developing AI field signal Signal 1d ago
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Amid flood ai advances astrophysicists are questioning soul their field

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“I've found it instructive watching is happening in the physical sciences with LLM-accelerated research. This passage from "The Last Astronomers" in Science resonated with me www.science.org/content/arti... (here is the arXiv article referenced: arxiv.org/ab…”

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Mark Riedl: I've found it instructive watching is happening in the physical sciences with LLM-accelerated research. This passage from "The Last Astronomers" in Science resonated with me www.science.org/content…
Mark Riedl: I've been struggling to put into words what I think has been broken in the field of AI for a while now. It started before AI-generated papers with the ability to use pre-trained models to do experi…
Mark Riedl: It manifests most acutely as the breakdown of peer review because of too many papers, and now AI-generated papers and AI-reviewing of papers. But these are symptoms of the breakdown of the unstated…
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Established AI field signal Analysis 4d ago
Togelius essay peer review AI anonymity

Saving peer review from AI slop requires getting rid of anonymous submissions and reviews

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“Agree. Wrote something similar: togelius.blogspot.com/2026/03/savi...”

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Dr Keith Wilson 🏳️‍🌈: That’s basically an online version of the journal system, and how we break the grip of the big commercial publishers IMHO.
Stephen Turner: AI has made it easy to construct the form of an academic paper without any true insight, and that’s not going away. We might have to move from peer review to peer recommendation. All papers get upl…
Eugene Vinitsky: @jmac-ai.bsky.social rumblings about the decoupling between review and rec are beginning!
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2 experts · 6 posts · 5d ago
Ben Recht: Dean Ball: Open source software is communist and threatens to bring on a dystopian hellscape. Also, it's COVID.
Julian Togelius: I had to read this several times to make sure he was really saying what I thought he was saying. One could point to the various companies making a living off open source software, such as Red Hat o…
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