Bring on the total replacement of all languages worldwide with emojis
Emoji Use in the Electronic Health Record is Increasing
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#82Emoji use was stable from 2020-2024, then spiked in 2025. The authors don't attempt to explain it, but I bet AI is to blame. Anyone who has had to clean up AI comments riddled with stupid emojis from their code will understand this.
I have some coworkers who use AI in place of the bullets in bulleted lists and I don't hate it. It's fun and eye-catching and brings some novelty to our scientific work. One uses science themed emojis (he's a cardiologist so lots of cardiac hearts, test tubes and DNA emojis) and another uses custom-mojis that she designed after Piet Mondrian's art. I've also seen emojis popping up in official meeting minutes which is…
> It's fun and eye-catching and brings some novelty to our scientific work.
That's not what "novelty" means in that context. If your review included "these emoji's really bring some novelty to this cholesterol survey" I'd look at you funny.
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#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have some coworkers who use AI in place of the bullets in bulleted lists and I don't hate it. It's fun and eye-catching and brings some novelty to our scientific work. One uses science themed emojis (he's a cardiologist so lots of cardiac hearts, test tubes and DNA emojis) and another uses custom-mojis that she designed after Piet Mondrian's art. I've also seen emojis popping up in official meeting minutes which is…
> brings some novelty to our scientific work Is this satire? I hope it is. Otherwise it seems like a sorry state that science currently is if it needs emojis to bring some novelty into it.
You're being downvoted, but I tend to agree that communication is not the part of science you want to "innovate" on. The purpose of (scientific) communication is to be understood, not to be novel.
The science you're writing about is hopefully extremely novel of course.
In general I've found "innovating on the wrong thing" is surprisingly common, especially from people who are bored and/or hungry for promotions, etc.
Re: Emoji Use in the Electronic Health Record is Increasing
#84I've noticed the same thing for LinkedIn, etc corporate communications. All of a sudden every CEO and marketing leader is packing them in.
Are you saying they are adapting them in a kind of cultural adaptation to the ChatGPT outputs, or are you implying the higher likelihood that they sees simply unquestioningly posting/sending AI outputs?
What about the possibility that newer versions of GPT models are more likely to use emojis in their responses
Re: Emoji Use in the Electronic Health Record is Increasing
#85Emoji use was stable from 2020-2024, then spiked in 2025. The authors don't attempt to explain it, but I bet AI is to blame. Anyone who has had to clean up AI comments riddled with stupid emojis from their code will understand this.
At least there are some signals that AI was used without any review/clean-up.
For example: , —, …, “ ”, ’ ‘, emojis, , , , , [BOS], [EOS], [PAD], [CLS], [SEP], [MASK], [UNK], U+00A0–U+00AD, U+200B–U+200F, U+2012–U+2015, U+202A–U+202E, U+2060–U+206F, U+FE00–U+FE0F, U+FEFF, U+FF01–U+FF5E, U+E0000–U+E007F.
Re: Emoji Use in the Electronic Health Record is Increasing
#86So healthcare workers are using chatgpt to write messages for patients and to summarize appointment notes? Given what I see at my workplace I can completely believe this.
Lets be real. The only connection an EHR has to patient health is whatever minimum standard the hospital needs to avoid malpractice lawsuits. The rest of the EHR is all about billing insurance companies and Medicare.
Nobody cares about emoji except the poor folks who have to login to it everyday, and it makes their lives a smidgen better. Lets chill on the criticism of emojis.
Re: Emoji Use in the Electronic Health Record is Increasing
#87Emoji use was stable from 2020-2024, then spiked in 2025. The authors don't attempt to explain it, but I bet AI is to blame. Anyone who has had to clean up AI comments riddled with stupid emojis from their code will understand this.
I have some coworkers who use AI in place of the bullets in bulleted lists and I don't hate it. It's fun and eye-catching and brings some novelty to our scientific work. One uses science themed emojis (he's a cardiologist so lots of cardiac hearts, test tubes and DNA emojis) and another uses custom-mojis that she designed after Piet Mondrian's art. I've also seen emojis popping up in official meeting minutes which is…
This is abusive toxic positivity, no different than "it's just a joke bro."
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#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
> brings some novelty to our scientific work Is this satire? I hope it is. Otherwise it seems like a sorry state that science currently is if it needs emojis to bring some novelty into it.
Jesus, my dude, lighten up a bit. Consider this: You're a grad student who's been reading page after page after page after page after page after page after page after page after page after page of lack and white text. How is marking a particularly explosive comment with a graphic representation of an explosion any different from highlighting it? Or from Davinci's marginal scribbles? or from Feynman's wave diagrams? O…
> You're a grad student who's been reading page after page after page after page after page after page after page after page after page after page of lack and white text.
What an interesting way to describe reading a book. It's amazing that anyone can read an entire book, composed of hundreds of pages, without getting bored of the black text.
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#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
Emoji and bullet points are easy to read, so it got rewards in RLHF process. You maybe hate this style at first glance. But if you read lots of text everyday, Emoji and bullet points lower the cognitive load.
Emojis when used like these models do, Mae text way harder for me to read. Its distracting and adds nothing to the text.
I find it makes list easier to read and think it actually looks nice. But it destroys my ability to sort. So, I use this style sparingly because most list information I would be looking at often enough to want to look nice, I also want to sort.
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#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
NO FUN IN MY SCIENCE ONLY SERIOUS BUSINESS LIKE GOD INTENDED
Novelty doesn't mean fun, it could have been a joke because the work of scientific research is literally finding novelty, that which is new, pushing boundaries of knowledge, etc.
Novelty can increase enjoyment which can imply that the activity is "fun" (though not all enjoyable activities can be categorized as "fun").
However, using the context clues, I surmised that the original poster, that is the one who enjoys seeing emojis being used as bullet points in literature produced by his colleague, finds this to be "fun".
Is that pedantic enough? AM I GOOD ENOUGH???? WILL YOU LOVE ME NOW DADDY?