Academics focused on artificial intelligence have taken to using generative AI to help them review the machine learning work of peers. A group of researchers from Stanford University, NEC Labs America, and UC Santa Barbara recently analyzed the peer reviews of papers submitted to leading AI conferences, including ICLR 2024, NeurIPS 2023, CoRL 2023 and EMNLP 2023. The authors – Weixin Liang, Zachary Izzo, Yaohui Zhang, Haley Lepp, Hancheng Cao, Xuandong Zhao, Lingjiao Chen, Haotian Ye, Sheng Liu,...