ChatGPT in academic writing

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Are we in trouble having learned that ChatGPT can write reasonable abstracts almost better than what many researchers can do? How challenging is this to serious-minded researchers? How concerned should we be? What does the future of researchers look like? What do you think about the acceptability and credibility of ChatGPT in academic writing?

Bakhodir S. Okhundedaev

Every researcher has to write himself because the programs don't know what you're thinking

Muhammad Aledeh

@Ramtin Zargari Marandi; @Bakhodir S. Okhundedaev thank you for your responses.

ChatGPT would not be able to provide humans with credible research work, however, there could be the possibility of AI to direct human researchers to relevant information needed to direct the search for relevant literature, for example.

Peter Donkor

I think that the use of ChatGPT in academic writing poses a significant challenge to researchers. ChatGPT can generate reasonable abstracts which may be better than those written by researchers in some cases. This raises questions about the acceptability and credibility of such artificial intelligence generated works in the academic community. As researchers, we should be concerned about this development, as it may lead to a devaluation of our work. It is also important to consider how ChatGPT may be used as a tool to assist in research rather than as a replacement for it. The future of researchers may involve a more collaborative approach to research, involving the use of both human and artificial intelligence. Researchers must adapt to this new environment and develop skills to best utilize such technologies to their advantage. Overall, ChatGPT presents a challenge to researchers, but also an opportunity to work with new technologies and develop new skills. The acceptability and credibility of ChatGPT in academic writing may depend on the level of oversight, control, and quality assurance applied by the academic community.

Muhammad Aledeh

Thank you for your contribution @Peter Donkor. Your contribution is very well appreciated.

Very recently, ChatGPT was praised across the world including among some academics. It is important to note that this would not be the first AI application that has been incorporated in academia. Some e-journals, libraries, and reference managers, just to mention a few have been with us for some decades now. The reference managers, for example, would not do a perfect job without the user's experience in academic writing.

Although many academics are already concerned about ChatGPT, time will tell how it is going to impact academia.

Muhammad Aledeh

Great input from @Ramtin Zargari Marandi.

Thank you for your invaluable and insightful contribution. 👍🏼

Muhammad Aledeh

The link below might be interesting and insightful:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00107-z?utm_source=Nature+Briefing&utm_campaign=2fd6fa2583-briefing-dy-20230120&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c9dfd39373-2fd6fa2583-45203210

Thank you for your time.

Mohammad Hamad Al-khresheh

There will undoubtedly be some significant challenges.

Emiliana Minenna

ChatGPT is a powerful language model that can generate text that is similar in quality to that written by humans. This can be beneficial in a number of ways, such as helping researchers to quickly generate abstracts or other written materials. However, it also raises some concerns about the potential for the model to be used in ways that could undermine the credibility of research or academic writing. Researchers will likely need to adapt to this new technology and develop strategies for ensuring the quality and credibility of their work in the face of increasing automation. Ultimately, in my opinion the future of researchers will likely involve working in collaboration with AI tools like ChatGPT, rather than being replaced by them.

Muhammad Aledeh

Great input here@Emiliana Minenna

Thanks for sharing your thoughts here🙏🏽.

R. Poznansky

ChatGPT is weak AI. Any experienced scientist would be able to pick up the shallow answers.

You are showcasing yesteryear's AI. No big deal here, just simple Deep Learning optimization techniques are used to refine the answers to best match a possible solution. The problem with any weak AI is they are incapable of understanding if the solution is best. Turing computation is incapable of deciding on quality and hence poor descriptor of creative papers.

See

https://www.researchgate.net/project/nonTuring-computation-in-the-brain-the-conscious-act-of-understanding-uncertainty

Eda Alemdar

Nicolò M. Villa

The style looks good, but the content would require so much work that makes it not worth the effort. Some information is missing, even on basic concepts, like insects anatomy, and there is plenty of fake information. I tried to ask for a summary of the topic I'm writing about and it looked too good to be true, in fact a lot information was generated by chatgpt. I also noticed recurring patterns in the writing style and that it frequently uses double spaces.

I'm not sure if it can improve with interaction. The time that you might use training it could be instead used for doing actual research and writing.

It also cannot improve text so easily. I try feeding it paragraphs asking to rephrase better, but the meaning was most often lost or the it didn't sound better, at least to me.

I'm not sure it can help with directing the search for relevant literature either.

Overall, I think that it's still too weak to be used and, most importantly, academia and publishing are riddled with issues that we should fix before introducing such a tool.

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