Zhongxin NETBeijing, July 6th (Reporter Sun Zifa) S&P, a world-renowned academic publishing institution Ringer Nature announced on July 6 that the book "CRISPR- A Machine-Generated Literature Overview", a book generated by artificial intelligence (AI), was newly published, and the editors of the new book were all From ShanghaiTech University, it is the first time that Chinese scholars have participated in its AI-generated book experiment.

This is Springer Nature Publishing following the publication of two books using AI technology The third AI-generated book, and the first to use AI to summarize literature in the life sciences, is a literature review book on CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) gene editing technology .

CRISPR and its related technologies have become an important research hotspot in recent years, and related research results have exploded With the rapid growth, as of June 2022, Springer Nature alone has published more than 53,000 related papers. Therefore, researchers are faced with the challenge of how to quickly understand and grasp the latest scientific advances in this field from the vast literature. Springer Nature's series of practices in applying AI to scholarly publishing offer solutions to these challenges.

The new book comprehensively presents the latest research progress in CRISPR-related fields. Beginning researchers bring very useful references. Since the e-version of the book was launched more than 4 months ago, there have been more than 2,700 visits (including online reading and download of the e-book), with an average of more than 400 visits per chapter.

Springer Nature published a completely AI-generated book on lithium-ion batteries in 2019, Lithium -Ion Batteries, followed by another AI-generated literature review book, Climate, Planetary and Evolutionary Sciences: A Computer-Generated Literature Review, in 2021 using a hybrid human-computer interaction approach Machine-Generated Literature Overview), which combines human-written text and computer-generated literature reviews.

The latest book "CRISPR" is based on Springer Nature's latest AI platform Auto Summarization ). First, the editor-in-chief searched the journal papers in this field published by Springer Nature in recent years based on self-defined keywords, and then screened 114 papers from the search results based on the knowledge graph calculation of the research field and the editor-in-chief's theoretical framework. The AI platform automatically generates abstracts after reading the full text of these papers. Finally, the editor-in-chief divided the abstracts of these articles into 6 chapters after classification and sorting, and manually wrote the introduction of each chapter for the convenience of readers.

The editors-in-chief of the new book are Zhang Ziheng, a doctoral student at the School of Life Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Wang Ping, a subject librarian at the Library Information Center, and Shengsheng. Professor Liu Jilong from the School of Science and Technology. Liu Jilong said that, like the field of lithium battery research, a large number of papers have emerged in recent years, so it is very suitable for using AI to generate literature reviews more quickly and efficiently. He is very excited to be part of this experimental project with Springer Nature and to witness how AI can realize its great potential in book creation and knowledge dissemination. It is believed that in the near future, this AI-based automatic document summarization system will further promote scientific progress and make a revolutionary contribution to human knowledge dissemination.

Dr. Niels Peter Thomas, President of Springer Nature Greater China and President of Global Books, said that this This new book, which combines human and computer-written content, is another excellent example of human-computer interaction generating books. "We are very happy to have Chinese authors participate. At present, we are using this AI platform to help more authors generate book content, and I believe readers will see more of these books in the future. In addition, we are also exploring The practice of AI generating some chapters of a book, while other chapters are still written by humans”. (End)