Consensus
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Consensus is a recurring organization in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 3 times across 3 issues between February 22, 2022 and February 29, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “Consensus is an app (currently in beta) that claims that they can automate searching through and analyzing the scientific literature using natural language processing”; “Consensus argues I am wrong and they will be great”; “I discussed the “scientific search engine” Consensus”. It most often appears alongside China, Ireland, Judaism.
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- Category: Organizations
- Mention count: 3
- Issue count: 3
- First seen: February 22, 2022
- Last seen: February 29, 2024
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10: Consensus is an app (currently in beta) that claims that they can automate searching through and analyzing the scientific literature using natural language processing. In my conversation with them, I pointed out the skulls of all the previous people who tried that, littering their path, and they remained upbeat and said their product was definitely going to be the one that works. I tried it with some medium-subtlety questions, and got lots of papers using keywords I used in the questions but nothing I would really call an answer - but they remained upbeat and said their product was definitely going to be the one that works. Anyway, you can sign up for their beta here.
31: I’ve previously expressed doubt about NLP-based science search/aggregation methods here, but Consensus argues I am wrong and they will be great.
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42: A while ago I discussed the “scientific search engine” Consensus; I expressed skepticism that you could make it work without AIs that were good at natural language. Now it’s a few years later, we have AIs that are good at natural language, and Consensus has incorporated them. So how’s it going? I asked it whether SSRIs are safe during pregnancy. It said:
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I think the Mayo Clinic summary is much better. I’m still not at a point where I would use Consensus without checking its answers carefully.