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Artificial intelligence in academic writing: a paradigm-shifting technological advance

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Artificial intelligence (AI) has rapidly become one of the most important and transformative technologies of our time, with applications in virtually every field and industry. Among these applications, academic writing is one of the areas that has experienced perhaps the most rapid development and uptake of AI-based tools and methodologies. We argue that use of AI-based tools for scientific writing should widely be adopted.

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The manuscript was edited for grammar and structure using the advanced language model ChatGPT. The authors thank S. Verma for addressing inquiries related to artificial intelligence.

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  1. Department of Clinical Sciences, Florida State University College of Medicine, Tallahassee, FL, USA

    Roei Golan

  2. Desai Sethi Urology Institute, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA

    Rohit Reddy, Akhil Muthigi & Ranjith Ramasamy

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R.R. is funded by the National Institutes of Health Grant R01 DK130991 and the Clinician Scientist Development Grant from the American Cancer Society. The other authors declare no competing interests.

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Golan, R., Reddy, R., Muthigi, A. et al. Artificial intelligence in academic writing: a paradigm-shifting technological advance. Nat Rev Urol 20, 327–328 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41585-023-00746-x

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