In less sensational but more useful AI news, I’ve just discovered Google’s release of a new PDF parser.
The product was pushed by the Google Scholar team as a Chrome extension, but once installed, it parses any PDF opened in Chrome (it doesn’t have to be an academic article). It creates an interactive table of contents and shows the in-text references, tables, and figures on the spot, without having to go back and forth from top to bottom of the paper. It also has rich citation features.
I love it, but my natural reaction was, why didn’t we have this already?