ChatGPT in scientific and academic research - future fears and reassurances

Fawaz Qasem. Department of English, College of Arts, University of Bisha, Bisha, Saudi Arabia.

Introduction

With the help of smart and sophisticated technology tools, artificial intelligence (AI) language models have greatly improved and have become inevitable tools in the research, and this development would lead to revolutionary steps and high competition among companies, academic institutions and publishers. Many fields depend greatly on technological applications that can act like human or perform urgent tasks in place of human services. ChatGPTs are intelligent chatting machines developed by OpenAI based on InstructGPT, which is trained to follow instructions promptly and provide a detailed response. According to the official statement and the prevailing responses in social media and recent research works, ChatGPTs are able to answer questions, write stories, poems, admit mistakes, challenge incorrect premises and reject inappropriate requests due to the dialogue format. In some academic studies, ChatGPT-3 was able to generate human-like and original abstracts. It was reported that medical writing depends heavily on AI and chatbots and has the potential to support academic research in the areas of economics and finance.

The use of AI-generated ChatGPTs’ language models has led to debates on how and when to use these models in scientific and academic research. The fears of most scholars in academia about using ChatGPTs’ language models were due to the possible spread of plagiarism and less control of unethical procedures. There is also a possibility of the spread of fake and unoriginal works in important areas in scientific and academic research. However, the experts find the use of language models as a potential tool for researchers to enhance and support them in the area of research. Therefore, this paper seeks to explore the negative and positive aspects of using ChatGPTs as a case study in the area of conducting scientific and academic research works and assignments. The research article attempts to present the fears of experts and reassurance of using ChatGPT in the areas of scientific and academic research. Many papers have reported the nature of ChatGPTs in many ways and how they generate ideas and human-like responses, but a few studies have explored the fears, advantages and reassurances of ChatGPTs’ use in scientific research and academic works such as writing papers and assignments.

Research gap

The quality of AI language models is improving very fast, and it is sometimes difficult to distinguish between human writing and unhuman generated AI language-based programs. All academic institutions, including prestigious scholarly journals and professors, are concerned about the future of their students’ research and assignments. Their concern for people in academia is that researchers and students may be much influenced by AI language models, including ChatGPTs, and become less independent and less creative. There are growing concerns and an imminent necessity about the academic standards and techniques, in addition to the research and writing ethics, that need to be preserved when it comes to the use of AI language programs, including ChatGPTs. This is to protect the researchers from plagiarism and push the researchers to be reliable resources of information and scientific research. The fear is that most researchers and students will follow blindly the fast spread of AI language models. Therefore, based on a qualitative data obtained from informal discussions with seven experts in the fields of AI, IT and scientific research, this paper aims at presenting the fears, the reassurances and benefits of the scientific and academic communities about the use and application of ChatGPTs as inevitable reality in the areas of scientific research and writing academic. The experts have a rich experience in the scientific research of AI, academic writing

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