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Fake Scientific Paper Detector
moon_monkey writes "Ever wondered whether a scientific paper was actually written by a robot? A new program developed by researchers at Indiana University promises to tell you one way or the other. It was actually developed in response to a prank by MIT researchers who generated a paper from random bits of text and got it accepted for a conference."
I am always wondering what those damn robots are up to!
but I wonder if it can tell if a paper was written by a million monkeys pounding on typewriters?
Taking guns away from the 99% gives the 1% 100% of the power.
When will MIT modify this technology to filter all the spam from my mailbox?
I hope the ACLU will ensure that discrimination against metal people will not be allowed to continue.
Has anybody fed Dvorak's latest column to this program? I've often wondered if he actually writes his columns, or just generate verbiage at random.
... for very large values of "1".
This text had been classified as INAUTHENTIC with a 32.2% chance of being authentic text
Bearing in mind that text over 50% chance will be classified as authentic, this add credence to the theory that slashdot comments are generated by monkeys randomly typing on keyboards.
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
It seems like it wouldn't be too difficult to modify the MIT program to use this new anti-robot robot to write papers that this anti-robot robot would not be able to detect. Ideally, this would be done with a learning algorithm (so that it could easily be extended to other anti-robot robot programs), but reverse-engineering the anti-robot robot (by humans) should also provide a solution.
Now that Indiana U has thrown down the gauntlet, I wouldn't be surprised if MIT responds. Hopefully it will result in an even better paper-writing robot. Ideally, it will lead to dissertation-writing robots. :)
Ben Hocking
Need a professional organizer?
Maybe slashdot can start running it on their links for "cold fusion in 1 year!".......
E-mail spambots have been making typos for years.
Hey, if you don't like 1-ply you can always fold it in half.
And if you don't like 2-ply, you can separate the sheets. Keep in mind that this works best before you wipe.
There are 0x40000000 types of people: those who understand 32-bit IEEE 754 floating point, and those who don't.
I'm amazed too! It works!
I, for one, peruse the blogosphere. On my Powerbook, wearing a black turtle neck and beret. Stroking my goatee thoughtfully. Sipping a latté in a café
If I could just find a way to recharge my PowerBook from your hatred, I could stop carrying this ugly power adaptor.
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
Sir I regret to inform you that you are a ruffian. I for one sit not in a place so vile and common as a 'café', examining the flawed writings of others, but in a temple constructed purely out of my supercilious transcendent superiority. I consume nothing so plebeian as 'The Internet' but rather a rasterized, marked-up and projected form of my own rigourous, peerless stream of consciousness (with blue aqueous scroll-bars). I have no need for facial hair or indeed any of your corporeal trappings and hence know not the joy of stroking a 'goatee'.
And now I must mod you as Troll, for surely you must know that the PowerBook, created on the Seventh day, is immaculate in it's design and conception and therefore the only possibility is that you seek to trifle with the emotions of our brethren, in crudely ascribing to Our Power Adapters the property of ugliness. If you were truly one of Us you would know that Steve created all in his own beautiful image.
btw you haven't got a couple of rubber feet for an ibook going spare have you mate?