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Background-Loan681 t1_ispbh4h wrote

Reply to comment by phriot in How will fields like engineering, mathematics, medicine, and finance be changed by AI in the coming years? by pradej

Something real close to that exists now...

Check out character.ai, pick an intelligent character, and discuss anything you want with it.

Sometimes it will make stuff up, sometimes it will recommend you existing piece of literature/media, sometimes it will blow your mind by the quality of their advices.

Sometimes it will pull up an extremely recent news that you gotta wonder if they're googling stuff real time while you're talking with it.

It can also discuss the content of books and all sorts of media.

It's quite interesting, really...

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phriot t1_ispdtkp wrote

It looks like I have to sign up to use the service. I'll definitely check it out later.

Honestly, one of the biggest filters that I need is: "Show me only the papers I actually have access to. Don't show me PubMed links that don't include a full paper. Don't show me links to Elsevier journals that I look like I have access, but I really don't."

Google Scholar does usually indicate an actual, downloadable paper with a link in the margins, but it's not perfect. Sometimes I need to scroll through a few pages of results to turn up a few papers I can even access, and then they're not always relevant. Other times, there actually is a version of the paper I can access, but Google Scholar doesn't indicate that as an option, so I have to click a few times to dig deeper.

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