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ChatGPT one year on: who is using it, how and why?

In just a year, ChatGPT has permeated scientific research. Seven scientists reveal what they have learnt about how the chatbot should — and shouldn’t — be used.
  1. Marzyeh Ghassemi

    1. Marzyeh Ghassemi is an assistant professor of computational medicine in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and at the Institute for Medical Engineering & Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA.

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  2. Abeba Birhane

    1. Abeba Birhane is a senior adviser on AI accountability at the Mozilla Foundation and an adjunct assistant professor in the School of Computer Science and Statistics, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.

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  3. Mushtaq Bilal

    1. Mushtaq Bilal is a postdoctoral researcher in postcolonial studies and world literature at the Hans Christian Andersen Centre, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.

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  4. Siddharth Kankaria

    1. Siddharth Kankaria is a science-communication researcher, practitioner and teacher at the National Centre for Biological Sciences in Bengaluru, India.

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  5. Claire Malone

    1. Claire Malone is a science journalist and inclusion consultant in London, UK.

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  6. Ethan Mollick

    1. Ethan Mollick is an associate professor of innovation and entrepreneurship at Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA.

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  7. Francisco Tustumi

    1. Francisco Tustumi is a researcher in gastro-intestinal surgery and evidence-based medicine in the Department of Gastroenterology, University of São Paulo, Brazil.

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Prof. Marzyeh Ghassemi sitting on a bench for a portrait

Computer scientist Marzyeh Ghassemi uses generative AI to summarize research. Credit: MIT Industrial Liaison Program

On 30 November 2022, the technology company OpenAI released ChatGPT — a chatbot built to respond to prompts in a human-like manner. It has taken the scientific community and the public by storm, attracting one million users in the first 5 days alone; that number now totals more than 180 million. Seven researchers told Nature how it has changed their approach.

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Nature 624, 39-41 (2023)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-03798-6

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