The Papers AI Assistant (powered by OpenAI) is designed to enhance research efficiency by providing real-time, in-depth analysis, summarization, and contextual understanding of scholarly articles, accelerating how users interact with complex academic content. It works by using generative AI to analyze your question and attempts to identify an answer within the context of the currently opened PDF.
Open the article you wish to use with the AI Assistant and navigate to the AI button on the upper left hand menu:
Here are some examples of some questions/commands which you can ask the Papers AI Assistant:
- summarize the article, including in another language
- break down complex terminology into simple terms
- provide additional information to concepts you may not fully comprehend
- recommend similar articles, and much, much more
We have designed our AI Assistant to focus on answering specific questions contained within the opened research paper, rather than relying on broad knowledge trained within large language models. This can help mitigate the probability of hallucinations (nonsensical or inaccurate AI outputs), but there is always the possibility the AI may misinterpret a question or fail to extract the correct context. Accuracy may also vary depending on the topic. We encourage you to refer back to the full text to verify answers, and in many cases our AI Assistant will point you to the specific paragraphs from which an answer was obtained.
If you have any additional questions, please reach out to us at Papers Support