Quoted: “I’m fairly convinced that this is the future, for sure,” says Shanan Peters, a palaeontologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison (UW Madison) who is co-leading an effort to use software to extract information from tens of thousands of palaeontology papers. “Building a database, per se, will be a thing of the past. Those databases will be dynamically generated based on the questions you’re interested in, and the machine will do the heavy lifting.”
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