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Could AI help you to write your next paper?

Large language models can draft abstracts or suggest research directions, but these artificial-intelligence tools are a work in progress.
  1. Matthew Hutson

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Illustration that shows a human querying an AI model, and the AI giving a response.

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You know that text autocomplete function that makes your smartphone so convenient — and occasionally frustrating — to use? Well, now tools based on the same idea have progressed to the point that they are helping researchers to analyse and write scientific papers, generate code and brainstorm ideas.

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Nature 611, 192-193 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-03479-w

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