"Machine writes chemistry book"

[BobPSU92]

MACHINE. LEARNING.

PATTERN. RECOGNITION.

I read the following in a chemical industry publication:

"Machine writers chemistry book

Springer Nature uses algorithm to summarize lithium-ion battery research

Springer Nature, the world's second-biggest academic publisher, has published the first scholarly book authored entirely by machines. The book, which is free to read and download, consists of four chapters summarizing studies about lithium-ion batteries. It is based on 150 papers published between 2016 and 2018 on SpringerLink, the publisher's database of more than 1,200 scholarly journals.

The algorithm sifts through studies analyzing keywords using similarity-based clustering, a computational technique often used in the fields of machine learning, pattern recognition, and image analysis. It groups together text on similar topics, producing succinct paraphrased summaries central to the topic of interest. According to Christian Chiarcos, a computational linguist at Goethe University Frankfurt who created the algorithm that wrote the book, the only thing users need to provide beforehand is the number of topical chapters and sections they want the generated book to have."

Maybe we shouldn't allow kids to go to college to become authors.

 

[BobPSU92]

A couple other excerpts from the article:

"Springer Nature and Chiarcos are also considering publishing a social sciences book using a tweaked algorithm. Chiarcos says the process will inevitably vary between different disciplines. “For example, chemists didn’t want us to summarize experiments which makes sense because if you miss some step in between, an experiment might fail,” he notes."

Not to mention that skipping a step could be dangerous, depending on the chemistry involved.

And,

"Henning Schoenenberger, director of product data and metadata management at Springer Nature who is leading the machine-generated book pilot, says the company deliberately didn’t manually polish or copyedit the book. “It was our intention to highlight the current status and the remaining boundaries of machine-generated content,” he explains."

 

[mikeinpenna]

SINGULARITY. APPROACHES.

 

[Psychedelic_MackDaddy]

MACHINE. LEARNING.

PATTERN. RECOGNITION.

I read the following in a chemical industry publication:

"Machine writers chemistry book

Springer Nature uses algorithm to summarize lithium-ion battery research

Springer Nature, the world's second-biggest academic publisher, has published the first scholarly book authored entirely by machines. The book, which is free to read and download, consists of four chapters summarizing studies about lithium-ion batteries. It is based on 150 papers published between 2016 and 2018 on SpringerLink, the publisher's database of more than 1,200 scholarly journals.

The algorithm sifts through studies analyzing keywords using similarity-based clustering, a computational technique often used in the fields of machine learning, pattern recognition, and image analysis. It groups together text on similar topics, producing succinct paraphrased summaries central to the topic of interest. According to Christian Chiarcos, a computational linguist at Goethe University Frankfurt who created the algorithm that wrote the book, the only thing users need to provide beforehand is the number of topical chapters and sections they want the generated book to have."

Maybe we shouldn't allow kids to go to college to become authors.

MACHINES. ARE. SEXY.