The ChatGPT revolution of academic research has begun

It makes up citations. I worry for those who will rely on it extensively to do their research.

The future us here. Chat G has passed the Turing Test, at least at the level of UG majors doing assessments. Is it the biggest bs-er in circulation as a Google executive recently called it? To some extent, aren't we all though?

ChatGPT is really amazing app, but only if you use it smartly such as asking it to give you questions instead of answers or using it for seeing points that you might have missed when writing your paper. I also concur with those saying chatGPT cannot replace human researchers as some of it content is bias and sometimes incorrect.

I'd like to see how ChatGPT will write the following essay for a Retail Marketing student "Visit [the local supoermarket] and with refefrence to the local demography discuss what changes you could make to [widen its market appeal / increase sales / whatever ....]. Or maybe give it the title "How would you market fish-flavoured ice cream in [your local town]". Maybe the IT will think Plaice-based marketing is a good idea, or Cods Roe flavour will sell well in Roehampton, or Salmon flavour will sell well to former leaders of the Scottish Nationalist Party.

"...it is conceivable that standard opinion polling, with questions based around the five-point Likert scale, may quickly become obsolete now that richer textual data can be scanned and structured in seconds" Perhaps, but the biggest challenge in surveys is getting participants to engage and spend time completing it. Likert's offer a rapid answer function that typing a response does not. Speech recognition might overcome that, but needs a development in the widely available survey management software. Interesting times.....

Hi DiggingDeeper. i tried aspects of your prompt as follows.// I own an independent grocer in Cooroy Queensland. with reference to the demography in South East Queensland discuss the changes I could make to widen its market appeal// ...it did ok

And im about to set up my fish flavoured ice cream stall in Cooroy