I do not have doubts about the usefulness of Chat GPT. What are the advantages and disadvantages of it from a general (common usage) and an academic (teaching and research) viewpoints?
While ChatGPT is a powerful tool for research writing, there are some limitations we need to consider when using it.
ChatGPT is incapable of generating original ideas, it only creates text based on the patterns it sees in it's training data. This raises the risk of plagiarism as the AI-generated text may not include references or citations that is critical for research writing.
Result of ChatGPT may also be incorrect, exceptionally. It has been reported that many publishers are banning the inclusion of ChatGPT as a co-author. That said, Springer's Nature editor, Magdalena Skipper, told the Verge that despite not permitting ChatGPT to be an author, they are happy for it to be used in the preparation of articles, as long as there is transparency.
Thanks Ajit Singh. Very good, simple, detailing. I have begun to hear from some that Chat GPT can become the murder of original research. But I had reservations about this comment. There will always be much misuse at the lower levels. But at the higher levels of research, in my opinion, it will be a way of reducing to redundance much ordinary stuff and an encouragement to use it to advance beyond the information had via CGPT
In any case, the name of the new technology does not sound attractive.
When I first heard about ChatGPT, I viewed it as a challenge for academia to overcome. Now, I feel differently. This is a good thing for academia and for students. Its use should not only be allowed, it should be required. The trick is to establish ethical standards for disclosure of its use and the need for a critique of its results.
This does several things. First, it promotes efficiency. Second, it helps students and others to identify AI papers along with their strengths and weaknesses. Third, it overcomes a continual battle with advances in AI. I wrote a 2 page comment about this on RG. There is plenty of room for institutions to formulate their preferences.
Richard Marker, very good comment. The future -- say, in 10 years -- will determine the advantages and disadvantages of this new tech. The future will also find ways of overcoming misuse, just like we have programs to check plagiarism in dissertations, articles, and other works. Thanks.
Richard Marker, another matter. I have uploaded a document in both RG and Academia, titled: SYMMETRY AS SUBSERVIENT TO UNIVERSAL CAUSALITY. I would be happy to get your well-considered opinions. Thanks.
I agree with Richard Marker and word it even more strongly. The challenge for us now is that we need to embrace this new technology and take advantage of this opportunity.
It reminds me of people who do not have a mobile phone at all. The most common reason is because they are too poor.
Some celebrities do it as well. I suspect that is more for increased publicity!
https://fandomwire.com/10-celebrities-who-say-they-dont-own-a-cell-phone/
Joseph C Lee, thanks. I too feel the same. Looks like some nations will ban it, but will soon realize its worth. On the other hand, safeguards must also be provided so that it will be used well, and not for disadvantages for the nation, society, etc. I do not yet feel that enough safeguards have been provided by its makers.
I haven't used Chat GPT for writing or research, but in education it can definitely be leveraged. It has the capability to summarize information and put it in a different writing style. For example, I've asked it to read research studies, and summarize the information on a fifth grade level.
In community health promotion and education that would be a seriously useful tool to make health science more accessible to the average community member.
Alex Harris, I am of this view too. One thing I am not able to find clearly is whether this system can really summarize information on any theme at an academic level, that can be really reliable at least at a statistically well-supportable manner. I have strong doubts about this. If it is able to do that, the doubts would then be on the details it can supply.
here is ChatGPT4 answer to your (slightly modified) question. My own experience: you can use the system as a relentlessly working research assistant, never fully trust the output, quality of output depends from the quality of questions and the compliance with systems rules.
Question: What are the advantages and Disadvantages of Chat GPT...? (in the academic field) How will it impinge genuine research? Please answer in scientific assertive language; include quotes and structure your answer. Output: 300 words
Advantages:
Disadvantages:
Implications for Genuine Research:
While ChatGPT offers significant advantages in the academic field, such as efficient knowledge acquisition and collaborative learning, it also presents challenges, including reliability concerns and the potential for overreliance on AI-generated content. To ensure that genuine research remains robust, researchers must be critical of the information provided by AI and remain vigilant in identifying biases and inaccuracies. By leveraging ChatGPT's strengths and mitigating its limitations, researchers can successfully harness its potential to enhance the research process and accelerate scientific discovery.
Thanks, Klaus Hornetz.
In short, while ChatGPT can be very useful for specifically discipline-related, interdisciplinary, and trans-disciplinary educational purposes, the lines of differentiation between discipline-related, interdisciplinary, and trans-disciplinary will be blurred sooner or later, especially by reason of the implementation of ChatGPT.
On the other hand, if sufficient legal mechanism and policies are put in place by the state, ChatGPT can be instrumentalized for high quality research. Plagiarism is a big concern. But issues like copyright violation have already been problems, and have been compromised by the advent of ebooks, and this will continue to be the case. I do not think this is easily to be blocked.
One more point to add, that limits ChatGPT's (and probably any other AI system's) scientific potential: it is embedded in the knowledge base of the philosophical, political, ideological environment, that has created it. See for example the attached paper.
"Conversational artificial intelligence (AI) disrupts how humans interact with technology. Recently, OpenAI introduced ChatGPT, a state-of-the-art dialogue model that can converse with its human counterparts with unprecedented capabilities. ChatGPT has witnessed tremendous attention from the media, academia, industry, and the general public, attracting more than a million users within days of its release. However, its explosive adoption for information search and as an automated decision aid underscores the importance to understand its limitations and biases. This paper focuses on one of democratic society’s most important decision-making processes: political elections. Prompting ChatGPT with 630 political statements from two leading voting advice applications and the nation-agnostic political compass test in three pre-registered experiments, we uncover ChatGPT’s pro-environmental, left-libertarian ideol- ogy. For example, ChatGPT would impose taxes on flights, re- strict rent increases, and legalize abortion. In the 2021 elec- tions, it would have voted most likely for the Greens both in Germany (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen) and in the Netherlands (Groen- Links). Our findings are robust when negating the prompts, reversing the order of the statements, varying prompt formality, and across languages (English, German, Dutch, and Spanish). We conclude by discussing the implications of politically biased conversational AI on society."
Klaus Hornetz, thanks for this additional point.
I shall contribute my thoughts here. If you find it good to contribute, welcome for further reflections.
Dear respected researchers
We have worked on a paper on that particular issue (ChatGPT and Academic research)
Title: "ChatGPT and Academic Research: A Review and Recommendations Based on Practical Examples"
The article's link:
https://journals.cspc.edu.ph/index.php/jemds/article/view/175
I hope you will enjoy the article and it will be helpful for academic people.
Regards.
How to philosophize? How to philosophize in the sciences?
https://www.researchgate.net/post/How_to_philosophize_How_to_philosophize_in_the_sciences
I have been revising this short discussion paper of mine in RG. It is an attempt to correct some basic attitudes in physics. Just now I have written an introduction to it. Please read it here. In a few days I shall upload the whole lead-text of this discussion for your reading and comments. Here please find only the introduction:
FOUNDATIONS OF AXIOMATIC PHILOSOPHY AND SCIENCE
1. INTRODUCTION
I get surprised each time when some physicists tell me that either the electromagnetic (EM) or the gravitational (G) or both the forms of energy do not exist, but are to be treated or expressed as waves or particles propagated from material objects that of course exist. Some of them put in all their energies to show that both EM and G are mere mathematical fields, and not physically existent fields of energy propagations from bodies.
This is similar in effect to Newton and his followers thinking honestly and religiously that gravitation and other energies are just miraculously non-bodily actions at a distance without any propagation particles / wavicles.
Even in the 21stcentury, we must be sharply aware that from the past more than 120 years the General Theory of Relativity and its various versions have succeeded in casting and maintaining the power of a terrifying veil of mathematical miracles on the minds of many scientists – miracles such as the mere spacetime curvature being the meaning of gravitation and all other sorts of fields.
A similar veil has been installed on the minds of many physicists by quantum physics too. We do not discuss it here. Hence, I have constructed in four published books a systemic manner of understanding these problems. I do not claim perfection in any of my attempts. Hence, I keep perfecting my efforts in the course of years. The following is a very short attempt to summarize in this effort one important point in physics and in the philosophy of physics. I BELIEVE THAT THE TRADITION OF LAPPING UP WHATEVER THEY SAY BASED ON THEIR MANNER OF USING MATHEMATICS SHOULD STOP FOREVER. PHYSICISTS ARE NOT TO BEHAVE LIKE MAGICIANS, AND THEIR READERS SHOULD NOT PRACTICE RELIGIOUS FAITHFULNESS TO THEM.
The Fallacies of Space, Time, and Spacetime in Physics
https://www.researchgate.net/post/The_Fallacies_of_Space_Time_and_Spacetime_in_Physics
Physical and Exact Sciences and Axiomatic Philosophy: Introducing Grounding (long text)
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Physical_and_Exact_Sciences_and_Axiomatic_Philosophy_Introducing_Grounding_long_text
Causality and Statistics: Their Levels of Effect and of Explanation
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Causality_and_Statistics_Their_Levels_of_Effect_and_of_Explanation
The Fate of “Source-Independence” in Electromagnetism, Gravitation, and Monopoles
https://www.researchgate.net/post/The_Fate_of_Source-Independence_in_Electromagnetism_Gravitation_and_Monopoles
Essential Reason in Physicists’ Use of Logic: And in Other Sciences Too!
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Essential_Reason_in_Physicists_Use_of_Logic_And_in_Other_Sciences_Too
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THE ONTOLOGY BEHIND PHYSICS
3.1. Traditional Physical Categories
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https://www.researchgate.net/post/THE_ANOMALY_IN_MATHEMATICAL_THEORETICAL_PHYSICS_Short_Text
Here a serious and somewhat complex matter to discuss:
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