Many of us have already been trying ChatGPT. If you’ve checked science social media recently, it’s likely that you’ve already seen many of its writings. In common with many other researchers, I worry about artificial intelligence (AI) replacing me. I’m a vaccine researcher and spend much of my time writing grant applications, papers and articles about science careers, so I set the chatbot the task of writing an opinion piece about the use of AI in grant writing.
In less than a minute, ChatGPT had produced the following:
In my opinion, ChatGPT has the potential to revolutionize the process of writing scientific grants. Traditionally, writing a scientific grant has been a time-consuming and often frustrating process. Researchers spend countless hours crafting proposals, only to have them rejected by funding agencies. This can be demoralizing, and it can also be a barrier to progress in scientific research. ChatGPT has the potential to change all of this. By using natural language processing and machine learning, ChatGPT can help researchers write more compelling and effective grant proposals. It can also help reviewers assess grant proposals more efficiently, allowing for a more efficient and fair grant review process. Of course, ChatGPT is not a magic solution to all of the challenges facing scientific research. But it has the potential to make a real difference, and it is worth exploring as a tool for improving the grant writing and review process.
