Springer-Nature sells an AI called “Curie” to help researchers write their papers in English

International Science Publishing provides a tool to help researchers, especially non-English speakers, write scientific articles using a language model (but not limited to). However, its flagship journal, Nature, is devoted to more than just using these tools. And the use of the name “Curie” may raise questions.

Curie is the name of Marie Skotowska-Curie, the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. But, more recently, it’s Springer-Nature’s new science publishing tool that’s based on language models that help researchers write scientific articles.

Publishing Multinational, its contactedTimely reminders of recent results Scientific studies (published by its rival PLOS, a pioneer in open access publishing) which “ Scientists whose first language is not English take 51% longer to write an article » (Let us mention here that we are talking about scientific articles in fields where English has become a common language).

” Curie is our answer. He is particularly trained in the academic literature, covering more than 447 fields of study, more than 2,000 specific topics, and more than one million reviews of published articles, including the core journals of the Nature group. », the press release explains.

This position of multinational corporations in the use of AI in scientific output is unique in the research context.