alt Hacker News> hence Open AI having an author credit.
How much precedence is there for machines or tools getting an author credit in research? Genuine question, I don't actually know. Would we give an author credit to e.g. a chimpanzee if it happened to circle the right page of a text book while working with researchers, leading them to a eureka moment?
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Not exactly the same thing, but I know of at least two professors that would try to list their cats as co-authors:
I have seem stuff like "you can use my program if you will make me a co-author".
That usually comes up with some support usually.
it's called ethics and research integrity. not crediting GPT would be a form of misrepresentation
>How much precedence is there for machines or tools getting an author credit in research?
Well what do you think ? Do the authors (or a single symbolic one) of pytorch or numpy or insert <very useful software> typically get credits on papers that utilize them heavily? Well Clearly these prominent institutions thought GPT's contribution significant enough to warrant an Open AI credit.
>Would we give an author credit to e.g. a chimpanzee if it happened to circle the right page of a text book while working with researchers, leading them to a eureka moment?
Cool Story. Good thing that's not what happened so maybe we can do away with all these pointless non sequiturs yeah ? If you want to have a good faith argument, you're welcome to it, but if you're going to go on these nonsensical tangents, it's best we end this here.
>How much precedence is there for machines or tools getting an author credit in research?
For a datum of one, the mathematician Doron Zeilberger give credit to his computer Shalosh B. Ekhad on select papers.
https://medium.com/@miodragpetkovic_24196/the-computer-a-mys...
https://sites.math.rutgers.edu/~zeilberg/akherim/EkhadCredit...
https://sites.math.rutgers.edu/~zeilberg/pj.html