I downloaded a scientific paper of great interest to me. It is of typical length, about 15 pages in the PDF. I opened it in Acrobat, and got this message highlighted at the top of the page next to an AI sparkle icon: "This appears to be a long document. Save time by reading a summary." I cannot put into words how much this enrages me. First, this is not a long document. Have you met documents? Second, and more important, telling someone to not read a thing they want to read??! Fuck you, Adobe.
@annaleen not only that, but the summary has probably a 50% likelihood of being wrong
@carolannie @annaleen was about to ask if you tried it. Am curious about real-world experience.
@ruedigergad @carolannie @annaleen I haven't tried the one in Acrobat, but generally ChatGPT or Gemini do a good work at summarising. I don't think hallucinations are a big problem honestly (for summarisation , they are a big problem for other things) I maybe haven't used them extensively but I don't recall seeing any obvious errors when summarising a document. It's the critical evaluation that is probably a bit more limited, but again if you want a quick summary, probably you're not looking for that either, and the tool does the job.
Honestly, aside fron the initial "oh that's cool" novelty-item moment I would say that mostly it's faster and more efficient to quickly scan papers manually yourself but there are other uses.
