Google Scholar Labs and other AI research tools

hotblack

hotblack

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I’d missed the announcement of this and hadn’t been on Google Scholar to do a paper search for a while but they’ve of course rolled out another Gemini LLM powered feature. Looks like it could be interesting though. Scholar Labs allows you to search for papers with a question rather than the old search term syntax

It analyzes your question to identify its key topics, aspects and relationships. It then searches for all of them on Scholar, and evaluates the results to identify papers that answer the overall research question. For each paper, it provides a brief description of how the paper helps answer your question.
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https://scholar.googleblog.com/2025/11/scholar-labs-ai-powered-scholar-search.html
 
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Utsikt said:
Sounds like it will risk spreading misinformation even more efficiently because people will not be checking the sources properly.
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Bleak way of looking at it but you’re probably right…
I just saw it, had a play and thought ‘hey this seems really useful for finding stuff to look at further’. Thinking about the use you describe though, I can absolutely see people quoting the generated descriptions without even trying to read the papers or understanding the context.
 
Rather than starting another thread for this, OpenAI have released Prism
We’re introducing Prism, a free, AI-native workspace for scientists to write and collaborate on research, powered by GPT‑5.2. Prism offers unlimited projects and collaborators and is available today to anyone with a ChatGPT personal account.
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It brings drafting, revision, collaboration, and preparation for publication into a single, cloud-based, LaTeX-native workspace. Rather than operating as a separate tool alongside the writing process, GPT‑5.2 works within the project itself—with access to the structure of the paper, equations, references, and surrounding context.
Prism builds on the foundation of Crixet, a cloud-based LaTeX platform that OpenAI acquired and has since evolved into Prism as a unified product.
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