Questions of science: chatting with ChatGPT about complex systems
This provides a novel way to gauge community understanding in complex systems, though it's incremental in using existing AI tools.
The researchers used ChatGPT to analyze the complex systems field, finding it reflects common community opinions and language patterns from its training data, covering both teaching/learning and research topics.
We present an overview of the complex systems field using ChatGPT as a representation of the community's understanding. ChatGPT has learned language patterns and styles from a large dataset of internet texts, allowing it to provide answers that reflect common opinions, ideas, and language patterns found in the community. Our exploration covers both teaching and learning, and research topics. We recognize the value of ChatGPT as a source for the community's ideas.