We recently had an argument in one of our lab meetings (in the VKPrasad Labs, which I’m a member of) over whether ChatGPT has any use in academia. Vinay Prasad hated applications such as ChatGPT and thinks it adds pretty much no value to academia, while Timothée Olivier who is also a member of the Lab and a physician in Switzerland (like myself) argued that it will have a place in academia, even though it's not yet clear what that place might be. I found myself somewhere on the middle ground. Timothée's point was that ChatGPT will be used to replace physicians/academics in the process of filling out of tedious forms and routine paper work that doesn't require much thought. Vinay argued that ChatGPT could spit out a thousand papers a year but could never produce an original idea. If you rely on it to run a research lab you will inevitably run out of ideas within a week and it adds no value to your team. I personally think that ChatGPT is good at making up phrasings and standard formulations for essays and academic