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The AI revived four shelved papers and got them ready to submit

A mathematician with more than a dozen finished but never submitted papers pulled out four of them and shared them with AI. The AI caught errors, built a spreadsheet comparing his new concepts against related papers, converted plain TeX to LaTeX, wrote abstracts he adopted almost word for word, and fixed bibliography entries unprompted. All four papers improved to the point where he submitted them.

How it works

  1. He shares four shelved papers with AI
  2. The AI catches errors, a few conceptual
  3. It suggests generalizations and builds a concept comparison spreadsheet
  4. It converts plain TeX to LaTeX and adds abstracts and bibliography fixes on its own
  5. He reads the suggested literature and writes the reviews
  6. He submits the papers

Why it’s worth knowing

The agent also did work nobody asked for, abstracts and bibliography corrections, and the researcher adopted the abstracts almost verbatim.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on mathoverflow.net. See the original ↗

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