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Chatbots in science: What can ChatGPT do for you?

Milton Pividori spent a year and a half studying how best to use ChatGPT in research. Here, he highlights three key lessons.
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    1. Milton Pividori is a biomedical-informatics researcher at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, Colorado.

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ChatGPT stunned the world on its launch in November 2022. Powered by a large language model (LLM) and trained on much of the text published on the Internet, the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, created by OpenAI in San Francisco, California, makes the latest advances in natural-language processing broadly accessible by providing a dialogue-based interface capable of answering complex questions, composing sophisticated essays and generating source code. One obvious question was: how could this tool improve science?

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-02630-z

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Competing Interests

The University of Colorado filed the US Patent Application for the ‘Academic Editing Engine(s) For Attribution And Revision Of Scholarly Authoring’ invention with the US Patent and Trademark Office. M.P. is one of the inventors in this patent.

M.P. received a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (G-2023-20989) supporting the research underlying this work.

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