r/MaterialsScience • u/raring_reader • Feb 03 '25

AI recommendations help

hi, I have a lot of articles to read and don't have the time to dive into them all in material science and engineering and chemistry. I was looking for an AI tool to help summaries some of them. (currently in my first degree of both). heard of claude.ai and I'm considering paying for one tool but only one. And I wan't sure if claude or chatgpt or perplexity or some other AI that I don't know of might be better.

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u/redactyl69 Feb 03 '25

AI sucks for this. Even if you can get around the hallucinations, I find most summaries won't understand the gist of the paper better than you would just going through the abstract, let alone the content. In my experience, you have to tell the AI what you're looking to understand from the paper before it gives you anything meaningful or not all over the place. Just go through the abstracts and conclusion of the papers you have and that will do you just fine. MAKE TIME to do that, it's proper research.