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How ChatGPT is transforming the postdoc experience

Around one in three respondents to Nature’s global postdoc survey are using AI chatbots to help to refine text, generate or edit code, wrangle the literature in their field and more.
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  1. Linda Nordling

    1. Linda Nordling is a freelance writer in Cape Town, South Africa.

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After living in Japan for more than a decade, Rafael Bretas, originally from Brazil, speaks Japanese pretty well. Aspects of written Japanese, such as its strict hierarchies of politeness, still elude the postdoc. He used to write to senior colleagues and associates in English, which often led to misunderstandings.

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Nature 622, 655-657 (2023)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-03235-8

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