ChatGPT one year on: who is using it, how and why?
On 30 November 2022, the technology company OpenAI released ChatGPT — a chatbot built to respond to prompts in a human-like manner. It has taken the scientific community and the public by storm, attracting one million users in the first 5 days alone; that number now totals more than 180 million. Seven researchers told Nature how it has changed their approach.![Marzyeh Ghassemi seated on a bench.](https://jclinic.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/d41586-023-03798-6_26372380-884x453.webp)