{"id":622353,"date":"2024-05-29T15:13:27","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T12:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/with-hallucinations-waning-ai-is-expanding-into-scientific-research\/"},"modified":"2024-05-29T15:13:27","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T12:13:27","slug":"with-hallucinations-waning-ai-is-expanding-into-scientific-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/with-hallucinations-waning-ai-is-expanding-into-scientific-research\/","title":{"rendered":"#With hallucinations waning, AI is expanding into scientific research"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3f9aed53406\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3f9aed53406\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/with-hallucinations-waning-ai-is-expanding-into-scientific-research\/#Fighting_AI_hallucinations\" >Fighting AI hallucinations<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<div id=\"article-main-content\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Scientific research has become one of the most promising\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>lications for artificial intelligence. It\u2019s also become one of the most divisive.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Across the world, tech firms are directing AI\u2019s analytical power into tools for <span style=\"color: #242424;\">academics<\/span>. Gradually, they\u2019re entering every stage of the research process.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Today\u2019s scientists can use <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.semanticscholar.org\/product\/tldr\">TLDR<\/a> to summarise study papers, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.litmaps.com\/\">Litmaps <\/a>to find research gaps, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/consensus.app\/\">Consensus<\/a> to discover insights from expert scholars, and <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.heyscience.ai\/submission-reviewer\">HeyScience<\/a> for peer review.<\/p>\n<p>Investors have taken a growing interest in the progress. Last year, Elicit research workflow\u00a0system <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.elicit.com\/elicit-raises-9-million-and-becomes-a-public-benefit-corporation\/\">raised a cool $9mn<\/a> within months of its launch, while fellow Californian startup NobleAI <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.einpresswire.com\/article\/624137758\/nobleai-secures-over-17-million-in-series-a-funding-to-expand-its-science-based-artificial-intelligence-platform?utm_campaign=press_release_4-12-23&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=linkedin\">secured \u20ac17mn<\/a> for a chemical and material formulation platform.<\/p>\n<div class=\"inarticle-wrapper latest channel-cta hs-embed-tnw\">\n<div id=\"hs-embed-tnw\" class=\"channel-cta-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"channel-cta-img\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"js-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/events.tnw\/hardfork-2018\/uploads\/visuals\/tnw-newsletter.png\"\/><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/events.tnw\/hardfork-2018\/uploads\/visuals\/tnw-newsletter.png\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"channel-cta-input\">\n<p class=\"channel-cta-title\">The &lt;3 of EU tech<\/p>\n<p class=\"channel-cta-tagline\">The latest rumblings from the EU tech scene, a story from our wise ol&#8217; founder Boris, and some questionable AI art. It&#8217;s free, every week, in your inbox. Sign up now!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Across the Atlantic, European challengers are also emerging. The continent\u2019s current leader is <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/iris.ai\/\">Iris<\/a>, an Oslo-based scale-up that today announced a \u20ac7.6mn <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Series<\/a> A funding round.<\/p>\n<p>Iris\u2019 flagship product is a machine learning engine that analyses academic research. Users prompt the tool to search for the information they need. The system then categorises, summarises, and systematises millions of documents to deliver actionable insights.<\/p>\n<p>Alongside the academic users, corporate clients such as R&amp;D firm Materiom have signed up as clients. So has the Finnish Food Authority (FFA), which used the platform to guide a strategy for\u00a0bird flu.<\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cOur tools enabled them to rapidly comb through tens of thousands of research papers to pinpoint relevant information at the intersection of niche areas like farm biosecurity and migratory bird patterns \u2014 an analysis that would have taken researchers months to do manually,\u201d Anita Schj\u00f8ll Abildgaard, CEO and co-founder of Iris, told TNW via email.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Abildgaard is also bullish about the product\u2019s accuracy. She\u00a0claims to have a remedy for one of AI\u2019s worst afflictions: hallucinations.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Fighting_AI_hallucinations\"><\/span>Fighting AI hallucinations<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>A major flashpoint erupted after Meta launched Galactica in November 2022. Billed as a large language model for <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">science<\/a> and trained on 48 million research documents, the software produced shortcuts to academic insights. Unfortunately, it also produced endless streams of AI-generated nonsense.<\/p>\n<p>The results caused a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social media<\/a> uproar. Academics were also alarmed by AI\u2019s propensity to generate inaccurate information. <span class=\"ContentText ContentText_variant_bodyNormal\" data-testid=\"content-text\">Researcher Michael Black, director of the prestigious Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Germany, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/michael_j_black\/status\/1593133744143360001\">warned<\/a> the tool could \u201cusher in an era of deep scientific fakes.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The reaction spooked Meta. Just three days after launching Galactica, the company <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2022\/11\/18\/1063487\/meta-large-language-model-ai-only-survived-three-days-gpt-3-science\/\">pulled the plug<\/a> on the tool.<span class=\"ContentText ContentText_variant_bodyNormal\" data-testid=\"content-text\"\/><\/p>\n<p>As the controversy swirled, Iris was promoting a solution to\u00a0these errors.<\/p>\n<p>The startup blends knowledge graphs, extracted data, and context similarity testing to measure the factual accuracy of AI-generated content. To substantiate the results, the system also provides verifiable sources for the outputs.<\/p>\n<p>With these safeguards in place, Iris promises to dramatically reduce hallucinations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy cross-checking the content generated by our AI against structured knowledge bases and evaluating the semantic similarities to factual sources, we can improve the factuality of our outputs,\u201d <span>Abildgaard said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Armed with renewed cash supplies alongside the accuracy protections, Iris now plans to add extra tools to the arsenal. Up next is a chat assistant that will guide researchers through the system and personalises the workflow.<\/p>\n<p>Yet accuracy remains the priority, Abildgaard said, because \u201cfactual grounding is paramount\u201d in research.<\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the themes of this year\u2019s TNW Conference is Ren-AI-ssance: The AI-Powered Rebirth. 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