Nowadays it is entirely possible to let these AI agents write a research paper and code from ground up based on some initial human instructions. But I think it is important to think about which parts to automate and which parts to keep in human hands.
Personally, these are the parts that I would be happy to delegate to AI:
- improve writing style and grammar from an initial paper draft
- help with literature survey, such as finding papers related to a topic
- critic my writing for clarity, especially on the algorithm descriptions
I would not want to delegate the parts that I need to do manually, at least the first few drafts, to help me think through the research:
- the ideation parts, such as initial paper title, abstract, and introduction outlining the problem and motivation
- the core approach, including algorithm description, pseudo code, architecture/pipeline illustration
- the limitations and future works
This post was inspired by PaperBanana for generating paper figures, which I think would be more suitable for results figures (like statistical plots) than conceptual figures (e.g., algorithm/pipeline illustration).
