Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

This is a 100% AI-generated paper I created in about ten minutes this morning on a subject of interest to me using the free version of Elicit's research generator. My prompt was nothing more than the title of the paper. It summarized results from the top 10 papers it found on the subject; a paid version would summarize results from many more papers. What did I learn? I should sort the research results better - the Atkins papers, for example, reported lower productivity, but on viewing the paper, I see a base pay of INR 8500 ($US 128.80) per month. I was motivated by an HBR webinar and a newsletter from Algorithm Watch on international gig work, both in my email today. Overall the Elicit work was pretty good, but I did note that while it's producing research summaries, it's still a long way from going out and doing the actual research studies that are being summarized.

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