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Aug 24, 2023

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You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar The conversational AI-powered chatbots that have come to Internet search engines, such as Google’s Bard and Microsoft’s Bing, look

You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

The conversational AI-powered chatbots that have come to Internet search engines, such as Google’s Bard and Microsoft’s Bing, look increasingly set to change scientific search, too. On 1 August, Dutch publishing giant Elsevier released a ChatGPT-like artificial-intelligence (AI) interface for some users of its Scopus database, and British firm Digital Science announced a closed trial of an AI large language model (LLM) assistant for its Dimensions database. Meanwhile, US firm Clarivate says it’s working on bringing LLMs to its Web of Science database.

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Nature 620, 258 (2023)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-02470-3

Liu, N. F., Zhang, T. & Liang, P. Preprint at https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.09848 (2023).

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