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AI writing tools could hand scientists the ‘gift of time’

ChatGPT might not yet give us sparkling prose. But it can free scientists up to focus on more-stimulating writing tasks, says John Tregoning.
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    1. John Tregoning is a reader in respiratory infections in the Department of Infectious Disease, Imperial College London, UK.

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Many of us have already been trying ChatGPT. If you’ve checked science social media recently, it’s likely that you’ve already seen many of its writings. In common with many other researchers, I worry about artificial intelligence (AI) replacing me. I’m a vaccine researcher and spend much of my time writing grant applications, papers and articles about science careers, so I set the chatbot the task of writing an opinion piece about the use of AI in grant writing.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-00528-w

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