With the general availability of Large Language Models (LLMs), will there soon be no point in writing academic papers? Similarly, if the brunt of text in papers will come from LLMs, will peer review become a pointless exercise?
Dear Martin, that's a valid question. I think (or: rather hope) that creativity makes the difference. I.e., human researchers need to come up with creative ideas. However, transforming these ideas into papers, and potentially, doing parts of the evaluation, will be further aided by different kinds of AI-based systems. IMHO plausibility checks etc. should still be done by human researchers -- even on the long run.