Understanding AI

• Emsley, R. ChatGPT: these are not hallucinations – they’re fabrications and falsifications. Schizophr 9, 52 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41537-023-00379-4:

  • Nature editorial covering one researcher's experience testing ChatGPT in their field

• Mitchell, M. How do we know how smart AI systems are?. Science 381, eadj5957 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adj5957

  • Overview by a National Academies expert, see NASEM's recent public lecture too on The Future of Artificial Intelligence

• Naddaf, M. ChatGPT generates fake data set to support scientific hypothesis. Nature 623, 895-896 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-03635-w:

  • Highlights how data analysis with ChatGPT can generate outputs that are hard to recognize as artificial and produced the wrong conclusion upon human analysis

• Conroy, G. Scientists used ChatGPT to generate an entire paper from scratch – but is it any good? Nature 619, 443-444 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-02218-z:

  • Nature journal news story covering where scientists had ChatGPT produce a research paper in less than an hour

• Hosseini, M., Rasmussen, L., and Resnik, D. Using AI to write scholarly publications. Accountability in Research (2023). https://doi.org/10.1080/08989621.2023.216853

  • Discusses drafting AI authorship or not policies and rationale

• Microsoft Copilot (previously Bing Chat): designed for many tasks including generating media, understanding topics, creating task lists and more, approved only for low-risk data (see link for details on access)

• ChatGPT (includes DALL-E 3): probably the most well-known GenAI tool today and can handle everything from writing a bio to helping with code, but may give incorrect information (hallucinate) when asking about searching​​​​, free and subscription options

• Claude: another GenAI tool, although is designed around complex tasks like multi-lingual content and higher-order math, free and subscription options

• Google Gemini (formerly Bard): be sure to check their FAQs, similarly to ChatGPT, it can get things wrong sometimes, but can still be a powerful tool, free and subscription options for personal Google accounts only (in select countries)

And for a more comprehensive list see this from information science professionals, by Ithaka S+R:

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