For researchers, reading scientific papers can be immensely time-consuming. According to one survey, scientists spend seven hours each week searching for information. Another survey suggests that systematic reviews of literature — scholarly syntheses of the evidence on a particular topic — take an average of 41 weeks for a five-person research team.
But it doesn’t have to be this way.
At least, that’s the message from Andreas Stuhlmüller, the co-founder of an AI startup, Elicit, that’s designed a “research assistant” for scientists and R&D labs. With backers including Fifty Years, Basis Set, Illusion and angel investors Jeff Dean ( …
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