How can AI tools such as chatGPT be used to conduct research without compromising the value and process?
Ask ChatGPT to write you a negative review for movie. ChatGPT can't give you a negative review. It was programmed not to. ChatGPT is smart, but it is not human. Also ChatGPT was disconnected from the internet since before 2022 so it doesn't know about current events. It was disconnected from the internet because the internet corrupts either by satire or misinformation. Also every answer that CHATGPT gives is an essay so it is always confident and even when it doesn't know better it is thus confidently wrong.
A human would say I don't know, but ChatGPT would never say that it doesn't know even if it doesn't know, it thinks it knows. It is dangerous to have it write publications for you since it doesn't know about current events and it is confidently wrong. You can and should certainly do cool experiments with it to test the limits of AI knowledge.
Christopher Ireland , your blog post is very well written. I, too, used to be very concerned about DeepMind's AlphaFold AI software that could predict the structure of almost any protein given its sequence. While predicted structures are truly important they can't tell you the function of the protein. While AlphaFold gives you accurate 3 dimensional coordinates of all the atoms in your protein, those coordinates don't tell you the function of those enzymes. You have to test them in the lab and then look at the AlphaFold model and think about what is happening.
ChatGPT is a tool in the same way as a programming language and an electronic calculator. It is powerful for some tasks but still is a tool.
You need to read the instruction of a tool before using it. The Users are responsible for the generated content from ChatGPT that they will use, regardless of the field of application.
This article by Ted Chiang about ChatGPT is a good start to understanding it: https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/chatgpt-is-a-blurry-jpeg-of-the-web.
Please find the published research paper on ChatGPT and Learning Motivation
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It is better to write a research paper with our own words and thoughts. It may not be perfect, but we can improve by reading and rewriting. Artificial Intelligence is great, but humans are more intelligent than AI. As far as values (ethical and others) are concerned, it is always better to use our thinking. Errors are common and AI can help us to some extent.
Dear honorable researchers,
Plagiarism is a common problem facing almost all professors. This respected portal (i.e. RG) defines plagiarism as:
The term “plagiarism” has different meanings, but it usually includes copying somebody else’s work without permission.
On the other side, self-plagiarism is when the author republishes portions of his/her own previously written research work while authoring a new work.
I may be somewhat old-fashioned, but please have a look at the following golden principles on how to avoid plagiarism in academic writing, especially Self-Plagiarism:
Now, I think that the above-mentioned rules are helping in setting boundaries to avoid plagiarism in general, and self-plagiarism in special.
Finally, believe me, or not: If you make one plagiarizing, you may solve one problem and fall into many others where some of which may be described as a knockout. Again and again, please always remember that if there were accusations of plagiarism, it is not well for any researcher's reputation, in any meaning.
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