OpenAI Releases Prism, a Claude Code-Like App For Scientific Research (engadget.com)
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- News link: https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/01/27/2157226/openai-releases-prism-a-claude-code-like-app-for-scientific-research
- Source link: https://www.engadget.com/ai/openai-releases-prism-a-claude-code-like-app-for-scientific-research-180000454.html
> Prism builds on [3]Crixet , a cloud-based LaTeX platform the company is announcing it acquired today. For the uninitiated, [4]LaTeX is a typesetting system for formatting scientific documents and journals. Nearly the entire scientific community relies on LaTeX, but it can make some tasks, such as drawing diagrams through TikZ commands, time-consuming to do. Beyond that, LaTeX is just one of the software tools a scientist might turn to when preparing to publish their research.
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> That's where Prism comes into the picture. Like Crixet before it, the app offers robust LaTeX editing and a built-in AI assistant. Where previously it was Crixet's own Chirp agent, now it's GPT-5.2 Thinking. OpenAI's model can help with more than just formatting journals -- in a press demo, an OpenAI employee used it to find and incorporate scientific literature that was relevant to the paper they were working on, with GPT-5.2 automating the process of writing the bibliography. [...] Later in the same demo, the OpenAI employee used Prism to generate a lesson plan for a graduate course on general relativity, as well as a set of problems for students to solve. OpenAI envisions these features helping scientists and professors spend less time on the more tedious tasks in their professions.
[1] https://openai.com/prism/
[2] https://www.engadget.com/ai/openai-releases-prism-a-claude-code-like-app-for-scientific-research-180000454.html
[3] https://crixet.com/
[4] https://www.latex-project.org/
So it makes researchers 20% slower? (Score:2)
Because that is what it essentially did for any real programming besides simplistic boilerplate: [1]https://mikelovesrobots.substa... [substack.com]
[1] https://mikelovesrobots.substack.com/p/wheres-the-shovelware-why-ai-coding
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I don't consider using but I can see the use case. "Convert this image to drawing commands" could be useful to some. A drawing in a paper won't need code structure or maintenance, so code maintainability is no concern. Also editing tables in latex is tedious and tricky, and is a table at which AI should excel (generating templates, reformatting).
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> Also editing tables in latex is tedious and tricky, and is a table at which AI should excel (generating templates, reformatting).
Not that tricky, really. If this thing is essentially just a LaTeX editor addon, it will not do much.
cloud based latex copy? (Score:2)
Who needs it, CERN already pays for my unterleaf.
Finally! (Score:2)
Where was this all my life? This is actually something AI can do extremely well!
Re: Finally! (Score:3)
Hello fellow low UID o.g.!
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And first post, too. Here's to us keeping the dream alive :).