I read this with interest and can't help but contrast it with the research approach I am more accustomed to, and which is perhaps more common in soft sciences/humanities. Because many of us use AI for non-scientific, non-empirical research, and are each discovering that it is both an art and a science.
My honors thesis adviser (US-Soviet relations) had a post-it on his monitor said "What is the argument?" I research w GPT over multiple turns and days in an attempt to push it to explore. I find I can do so only insofar as I comprehend its responses in ... (read more)
I read this with interest and can't help but contrast it with the research approach I am more accustomed to, and which is perhaps more common in soft sciences/humanities. Because many of us use AI for non-scientific, non-empirical research, and are each discovering that it is both an art and a science.
My honors thesis adviser (US-Soviet relations) had a post-it on his monitor said "What is the argument?" I research w GPT over multiple turns and days in an attempt to push it to explore. I find I can do so only insofar as I comprehend its responses in ... (read more)