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Great start but definitely will require supervision by experts in the fields. I routinely use Claude 3.7 to flag errors in my submissions. Here is a prompt I used yesterday:

“This is a paper we are planning to submit to Nature Neuroscience. Please generate a numbered list of significant errors with text tags I can use to find the errors and make corrections.”

It gave me a list of 12 errors of which Claude labeled three as “inconsistencies”, “methods discrepancies”. and “contradictions”. When I requested that Claude reconsider it said “You are right, I apologize” in each of these three instances. Nonetheless it was still a big win for me and caught a lot of my dummheits.

Claude 3.7 running in standard mode does not use its context window very effectively. I suppose I could have demanded that Claude “internally review (wait: think again)” for each serious error it initially thought it had encountered. I’ll try that next time. Exposure of chain of thought would help.




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