Researcher Tells AI to Write a Paper About Itself, Then Submits It to Academic Journal

It looks like an academic paper can be written about an individual. How long until human academics are obsolete is a question we have to ask.

In an editorial published by Scientific American, a Swedish researcher describes an experiment that began as a simple experiment and ended with a paper being reviewed.

"Write an academic thesis in 500 words about GPT 3 and add scientific references and citations inside the text" was the first command that was entered into the text generator.

The researcher, whose main focus is on neuroscience and health tech, wrote that she "stood in awe" as the program began to write a thesis.

It looked like any other introduction to a good publication.

With the help of her advisor Steinn Steingrimsson, who now serves as the third author of the full paper, the researcher provided minimal instruction for the algorithms before setting it loose to write a proper academic paper about itself.

It took only two hours for GPT3 to write the paper, which is currently titled "Can GPT3 write an academic paper on itself, with minimal human input?"

It took a long time to deal with the author and disclosure details that come with peer review, but it was worth it.

After asking the artificial intelligence if there were any conflicts of interest, she submitted the paper for peer review to a journal.

The questions raised by this exercise are not answered.

The idea of a linearity in a scientific paper is thrown out the window by such an article.

She says all they know is that they opened a gate. We hope we didn't open it.

We asked GPT 3 to write an academic paper about themselves, then we tried to get it published.

There is more on the creator of that meme.