The lead/featured image for VentureBeat’s (interesting) piece on OpenScholar: The open-source A.I. that’s outperforming GPT-4o in scientific research

Scientists are drowning in data. With millions of research papers published every year, even the most dedicated experts struggle to stay updated on the latest findings in their fields.

A new artificial intelligence system, called OpenScholar, is promising to rewrite the rules for how researchers access, evaluate, and synthesize scientific literature. Built by the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) and the University of Washington, OpenScholar combines cutting-edge retrieval systems with a fine-tuned language model to deliver citation-backed, comprehensive answers to complex research questions.

I’m keenly interested but am a bit lost as to why the representton for this is a supposed robot scientist. I guess this is to save them the drudgery of reading. And the empty glass is just weird, it might not be a beer glass, but WTF?

Image is credited as “VentureBeat made with Midjourney” so the question of the human creator, the source, a license is just vapor. Maybe the clue is in the filename 

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but who really knows anymore?

Shared By: venturebeat.com
Source: https://venturebeat.com/ai/openscholar-the-open-source-a-i-thats-outperforming-gpt-4o-in-scientific-research/
Image Alt Text: Cartoonish image of a robot sitting at a desk reading a book with nearby a cup of pencils, more books standing up, and for some reason a beer glass. Behind is a chalkboard covered with illegiable words, equations, and what looks like post it notes.