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

        

        
            
        
        
            
                
                    

    
        
            
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                30 November 2023
                
            

            

            
                
                
                    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.
                
            
        
        
            
    
        
            
                
                    Marzyeh Ghassemi
                
                
                    
                        
                            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.
                        
                    
                
                
                    
                
            
        
            
                
                    Abeba Birhane
                
                
                    
                        
                            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.
                        
                    
                
                
                    
                
            
        
            
                
                    Mushtaq Bilal
                
                
                    
                        
                            Mushtaq Bilal is a postdoctoral researcher in postcolonial studies and world literature at the Hans Christian Andersen Centre, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.
                        
                    
                
                
                    
                
            
        
            
                
                    Siddharth Kankaria
                
                
                    
                        
                            Siddharth Kankaria is a science-communication researcher, practitioner and teacher at the National Centre for Biological Sciences in Bengaluru, India.
                        
                    
                
                
                    
                
            
        
            
                
                    Claire Malone
                
                
                    
                        
                            Claire Malone is a science journalist and inclusion consultant in London, UK.
                        
                    
                
                
                    
                
            
        
            
                
                    Ethan Mollick
                
                
                    
                        
                            Ethan Mollick is an associate professor of innovation and entrepreneurship at Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA.
                        
                    
                
                
                    
                
            
        
            
                
                    Francisco Tustumi
                
                
                    
                        
                            Francisco Tustumi is a researcher in gastro-intestinal surgery and evidence-based medicine in the Department of Gastroenterology, University of São Paulo, Brazil.
                        
                    
                
                
                    
                
            
        
    

        
    
    


                    
                        
    
            
            
    
    
        
            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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                    The authors declare no competing interests.
                

            
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