So I just had a chat with one of the current students of my alma mater. There’s now an “AI in research” mandatory course right now. And they use “AI” in their literature review process to summarize some of the papers they need.

And I’m, like, lost on words. The whole point of literature review is not getting a short summary. It’s about finding connections, getting meta info, and encountering serendipitous bits.

All my conscious life was about serendipity. I was always exploring something and then finding some elusive traces of another thing that was also interesting. But not the “AI summary” type of interesting. Tangential, side-note, weird. I mean, this is conspiracy theory of everything type of thing sometimes. But I want to see *connections* and I value finding them.

Using “AI” for summaries misses that most useful bit of research. And I’m extremely disappointed about that.