The Korea Times
CAMBRIDGE — Only a few years ago, artificial intelligence (AI) seemed like merely a nice toy: a chatbot that simulated intelligence by assembling complete sentences in response to users’ prompts but that ultimately wasn’t much more sophisticated than an advanced search engine. Yet now, it has proven to be an incredible tool that can performs task I never thought would be possible in my lifetime. For example, I have used AI to locate online datasets, manipulate them, carry out statistical tests, and produce polished tables and charts, complete with sensible commentary on what the results mean, how they relate to the academic literature, and the strengths and weaknesses of the analysis. In less than half an hour, AI can do a job that would take a research assistant several days. Sometimes, the current crop of AI models seem almost capable of reading your mind. Unlike in programming or writing code, you do not have to specify very precisely what you are looking for, leaving no room for misinterpretation. The model will “intuit” what you are after and fill in the missing details
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