alt Hacker NewsThere is some of that but I wouldn't call it gatekeeping. Universities lately promote citations and publications so there's a sense that results are all that matters. Results matter, yes, but there's a human side too where we're kind of asking about human creativity and ability. To me an appropriate analogy is in climbing Mt. Everest. Proving something, or even writing a thesis, is like climbing Mt. Everest. A lot of the value is actually in the effort you put into it. You could take a helicopter ride up to the top and then climb a few steps and claim "You climbed to the peak of Everest". That's like using AI. But if you asked them about what it was like, how they prepared, etc. their answer would not be helpful. So I think there is a lot of value in the journey itself and outsourcing all this to AI would destroy the human part of it.
It's completely antithetical to the whole enterprise to hide anything these researchers produce behind a paywall. Id be glad to see that go.
> or even writing a thesis, is like climbing Mt. Everest. A lot of the value is actually in the effort you put into it.
As an analogy, in the music industry, if you need a jingle written, you wouldn't care if someone spent five minutes or five years writing it. AI is now filling that formulaic space very well. It won't replace the top end of humans output but it completely outdoes all the boilerplate stuff humans take an age creating