Do apps such as ChatGPT spell doom for research support?
On 30 November 2022, ChatGPT was launched. It was met with equal measures of wonder and horror, like it was some kind of real-life Jumanji but without the promise of a return to normality once the game was over. Great as a quirky toy, not so great when it’s a vehicle for the destruction of the human race.
Many were quick to see that our working lives would change forever. Goldman Sachs predicted that two-thirds of occupations in the US would be affected by artificial intelligence (AI) automation, with between a quarter and half of
workloads replaced.
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