{"id":225606,"date":"2025-11-21T13:42:59","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T19:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/large-language-models-and-research-progress-qa-with-an-aerospace-engineer"},"modified":"2025-11-21T13:42:59","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T19:42:59","slug":"large-language-models-and-research-progress-qa-with-an-aerospace-engineer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/large-language-models-and-research-progress-qa-with-an-aerospace-engineer","title":{"rendered":"Large language models and research progress: Q&amp;A with an aerospace engineer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/large-language-models-and-research-progress-qa-with-an-aerospace-engineer.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The rapid expansion of large language models\u2019 (LLMs) capabilities\u2014including web search, code execution, data analysis and even hypothesis generation and experimental design\u2014is outpacing critical reflection of how the technology fits into academic research.<\/p>\n<p>This is the argument that Ricardo Vinuesa, an associate professor of aerospace engineering at U-M, and his co-authors made in the journal <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.xinn.2025.101144\" target=\"_blank\"><i>The Innovation<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Though they acknowledge that LLMs are helpful for generating a speedy first draft, adopting LLMs into every stage of the research process without proper guardrails creates risk of misconduct, such as data fabrication or biased experimental design.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rapid expansion of large language models\u2019 (LLMs) capabilities\u2014including web search, code execution, data analysis and even hypothesis generation and experimental design\u2014is outpacing critical reflection of how the technology fits into academic research. This is the argument that Ricardo Vinuesa, an associate professor of aerospace engineering at U-M, and his co-authors made in the journal [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}