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Launch HN: Undermind (YC S24) – AI agent for discovering scientific papers

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Re: Launch HN: Undermind (YC S24) – AI agent for discovering scientific papers

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How is this different from Scite, Elicit, Consensus, and Scopus AI for Generating Literature Reviews

Ours is slow, but accurate, even for complex topics. The rest are fast, but generally can't handle complex topics. (There's more nuanced explanations in other comments)

Re: Launch HN: Undermind (YC S24) – AI agent for discovering scientific papers

#32
I'll write the obligatory comment about doing literature searches in the 90s, which involved trudging to the physics library, the chemistry library, and the engineering library in search of dead tree copies of the journal articles you're after. Also: skimming each paper quickly after you photocopy it, to see if it references any other papers you should grab while you're at the library.

Re: Launch HN: Undermind (YC S24) – AI agent for discovering scientific papers

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How is this different than the work that semantic scholar is doing around AI?

Semantic Scholar seems more focused on 1. being the data provider/aggregator for the research community, and 2. long term, I think they plan to develop software at the reading interface that learns as a researcher uses it to browse papers (a rich PDF reader, with hyperlinks, TLDRs, citation contexts, and a way to track your interactions over time, and remind you of what you've seen or not). Their core feature now is…

I've used undermind for literature search and it was very precise! Thanks for the product! I wonder how you plan to extend the search to full paper content (will Semantic Scholar api allow this) - and do you plan to connect more datasets (which ones)? (many of them are paid...)

Re: Launch HN: Undermind (YC S24) – AI agent for discovering scientific papers

#36
I’m a marketer rather than a scientist but this proved very useful in helping me find research that’s applicable to my field of work (crm marketing). Nothing particularly new was surfaced but I suppose I wasn’t expecting it to either http://www.undermind.ai/query_app/display_one_search/7140cc6...

Re: Launch HN: Undermind (YC S24) – AI agent for discovering scientific papers

#37
Curious as to what it's doing under the hood, the query to return the results takes an excruciatingly long time... are you searching remote sources vs a local index?

this was the search https://www.undermind.ai/query_app/display_one_search/cba773...> if you need a reference too it, ie bugs or performance monitoring...

Re: Launch HN: Undermind (YC S24) – AI agent for discovering scientific papers

#40

Curious as to what it's doing under the hood, the query to return the results takes an excruciatingly long time... are you searching remote sources vs a local index? this was the search https://www.undermind.ai/query_app/display_one_search/cba773... > if you need a reference too it, ie bugs or performance monitoring...

The few minute time delay is primarily because of the sequential LLM processing steps by high quality LLMs, not database access times. The system reads and generates paragraphs about papers, then compares them, and we have to use the highest quality LLMs, so token generation times are perceptible. We repeat many times for accuracy. We find it's impossible to be accurate without GPT-4 level models and the delay.
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