Scholars have a nifty way of alerting colleagues to lengthy treatises that they find simply not worth their time to read. It's kind of a 21st century spin on the 420-year-old notion Shakespeare's Polonius relayed to the king and queen in "Hamlet": "Brevity," he suggested, "is the soul of wit." The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Seattle has taken both sentiments to heart and this week unveiled a system that offers extreme condensation of lengthy computer-science reports to slash the time it take to review such literature. Semantic Scholar is a research tool powered by AI and used for scientific research. With its new summarization feature, it surveys massive numbers of scientific research papers and reduces them to one-sentence summaries.