Nature (Nature feature article)  June 5, 2023 Artificial intelligence chatbots, such as ChatGPT, have impressive abilities. Yet for all their apparent sentience, chatbots are not intelligent — and they must be used with caution. Researchers who have become adept with the tool offer advice for scientists on how to avoid the pitfalls – “treat this AI as a summer intern” — hard-working and eager to please, but also inexperienced and error-prone. In short, ChatGPT and related tools based on large language models (LLMs), which include Microsoft Bing and GitHub Copilot, are incredibly powerful programming aids, but must be used with […]