🤖 Academia is on Fire

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In today's serving:

  • ChatGPT ignites a firestorm in academia

  • Roundups of the top headlines and hottest product launches

  • Memes - come for the news, stay for the laughs

📑ChatGPT: tool or co-author?

At least four research papers have credited ChatGPT as a co-author in the past seven months.

The AI tool's debut in the scientific community has set off a firestorm. Journal editors, researchers, and publishers are scratching their heads over the proper place for ChatGPT and its inevitable successors in published literature.

ChatGPT is questioning the age-old concept of authorship.

ChatGPT may be a whiz at writing scientific papers, but it can't take responsibility for the content and integrity of said papers, which for many is a non-negotiable requirement for authorship.

That said, dismissing ChatGPT's contributions entirely also seems like a mistake. While ChatGPT may not be the lead author, it clearly did enough heavy lifting to be credited.

How does one write policies that acknowledge an AI's contribution to authoring scientific papers without compromising the research's integrity?

Hey! Stop thinking about answering that question using ChatGPT.

Even in 2023, humans prefer to know that a human wrote whatever they're reading. Just look at CNET's AI writing scandal, which has been criticized from all sides.

ChatGPT's foray into academic paper writing is another notch on AI tool's belt. Every industry will soon have to figure out whether, how, and when to use chatbots built on large language models.

The bar for brilliance just got a whole lot higher.

(Nature)

🤠 Headline Roundup

Atwater Brewery unveiled a craft beer formulated by ChatGPT. Cheers! (Detroit Free Press)

Real estate agents got creative, putting ChatGPT to work on writing house listings, communicating with developers, and producing content. (Axios)

China's self-driving car effort slowed down due to legal and financial issues. (Nikkei Asia)

FBI's director sounded the alarm on AI and autonomous vehicle security risks, particularly in China, where strong privacy restrictions don't exist. (The Wall Street Journal)

Aletha AI teamed up with Polygon to use generative AI to create avatar NFTs. (VentureBeat)

GPT-3 and Siri worked as a team in this clever proof-of-concept demoing a new way to control your HomeKit devices. (The Verge)

Long read: Is AI the new crypto? (Luttig's Learnings)

CNET owner Red Ventures has reportedly been using AI tools like Wordsmith to write stories for at least a year and a half, and staff are uneasy. (The Verge)

Scenario, an AI platform that generates game art assets, raised $6 million. (TechCrunch)

🔥 Hottest Product Launches

  • ReleaseNote.AI - generate engaging release notes in seconds with GPT-3 (link)

  • ChatGPT Prompts for Your Next Launch - make your product launch stand out (link)

  • TweetMe - a tweet writer that writes like you, promising not to be generic (link)

  • Promptable - a workspace for prompt engineers building AI-first products (link)

  • NetworkAI - an automated networking tool to connect with industry professionals (link)

  • AI Content Labs - creates content quickly and on the cheap (link)

  • Finding Words - writes an obituary after you answer a few questions (link)

  • Perplexity AI - a conversational search engine (link)

Satya Nadella on AI and ChatGPT at Davos 

That's a wrap for today. Stay curious and see you next week! If you want more bite-sized content, be sure to follow me on Twitter (@jeremykuoo).