"What I hope this doesn't do is make researchers inappropriately use chatbots, by wrongly thinking that all AI tools are equivalent," he says.
"There's always hype cycles, recent ones being blockchain and graphene," says Hodgkinson. The surge in research after graphene's discovery had arguably only a modest real-world impact.
"Whether there's substance to the proposals and applications [of AI] is another matter," Hodgkinson says, expressing concern over the quality of research outcomes.
The number of publications around AI has tripled between 2010 and 2022, according to research by Stanford University, with nearly a quarter of a million papers published in 2022 alone.
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