132 citations · 348 across the 17 of their papers we have counts for
17 papers
The unintended consequences of large language models as a labor-augmenting technology in science
Eamon Duede, Kevin Gross, M. J. Crockett +1
As a labor-augmenting technology, large language models (LLMs) have the potential to accelerate scientific activity across the research pipeline. But even if LLMs perform on par wi…
Critical Confabulation: Can LLMs Hallucinate for Social Good?
Peiqi Sui, Eamon Duede, Hoyt Long +1
LLMs hallucinate, yet some confabulations can have social affordances if carefully bounded. We propose critical confabulation (inspired by critical fabulation from literary and soc…
AI and the Decentering of Disciplinary Creativity
Eamon Duede
This paper examines the role of artificial intelligence in scientific problem-solving, with a focus on its implications for disciplinary creativity. Drawing on recent work in the p…
Confabulation: The Surprising Value of Large Language Model Hallucinations
Peiqi Sui, Eamon Duede, Sophie Wu +1
This paper presents a systematic defense of large language model (LLM) hallucinations or 'confabulations' as a potential resource instead of a categorically negative pitfall. The s…
The Paradox of Collective Certainty in Science
Eamon Duede, James Evans
We explore a paradox of collective action and certainty in science wherein the more scientists research together, the less that work contributes to the value of their collective ce…
Oil & Water? Diffusion of AI Within and Across Scientific Fields
Eamon Duede, William Dolan, André Bauer +2
This study empirically investigates claims of the increasing ubiquity of artificial intelligence (AI) within roughly 80 million research publications across 20 diverse scientific f…
The Representational Status of Deep Learning Models
Eamon Duede
This paper aims to clarify the representational status of Deep Learning Models (DLMs). While commonly referred to as 'representations', what this entails is ambiguous due to a conf…
Deep Learning Opacity in Scientific Discovery
Eamon Duede
Philosophers have recently focused on critical, epistemological challenges that arise from the opacity of deep neural networks. One might conclude from this literature that doing g…
The Diminishing Returns of Masked Language Models to Science
Zhi Hong, Aswathy Ajith, Gregory Pauloski +3
Transformer-based masked language models such as BERT, trained on general corpora, have shown impressive performance on downstream tasks. It has also been demonstrated that the dow…
The Social Abduction of Science
Eamon Duede, James Evans
The logic of abduction involves a collision between deduction and induction, where empirical surprises violate expectations and scientists innovate to resolve them. Here we reformu…
Being Together in Place as a Catalyst for Scientific Advance
Eamon Duede, Misha Teplitskiy, Karim Lakhani +1
The COVID-19 pandemic necessitated social distancing at every level of society, including universities and research institutes, raising essential questions concerning the continuin…
Status drives how we cite: Evidence from thousands of authors
Misha Teplitskiy, Eamon Duede, Michael Menietti +1
Researchers cite works for a variety of reasons, including some having nothing to do with acknowledging influence. The distribution of different citation types in the literature, a…
The Wisdom of Polarized Crowds
Feng Shi, Misha Teplitskiy, Eamon Duede +1
As political polarization in the United States continues to rise, the question of whether polarized individuals can fruitfully cooperate becomes pressing. Although diversity of ind…
Enabling Interactive Analytics of Secure Data using Cloud Kotta
Yadu N. Babuji, Kyle Chard, Eamon Duede
Research, especially in the social sciences and humanities, is increasingly reliant on the application of data science methods to analyze large amounts of (often private) data. Sec…
A Secure Data Enclave and Analytics Platform for Social Scientists
Yadu N. Babuji, Kyle Chard, Aaron Gerow +1
Data-driven research is increasingly ubiquitous and data itself is a defining asset for researchers, particularly in the computational social sciences and humanities. Entire career…
Convergence of Economic Growth and the Great Recession as Seen From a Celestial Observatory
Eamon Duede, Victor Zhorin
Macroeconomic theories of growth and wealth distribution have an outsized influence on national and international social and economic policies. Yet, due to a relative lack of relia…
Amplifying the Impact of Open Access: Wikipedia and the Diffusion of Science
Misha Teplitskiy, Grace Lu, Eamon Duede
With the rise of Wikipedia as a first-stop source for scientific knowledge, it is important to compare its representation of that knowledge to that of the academic literature. Here…