ChatGPT: How Can It Impact Nursing and Health Science Education?

Abstract

New artificial intelligence models use large amounts of data and computing techniques to predict combining words meaningfully. A viral bot, ChatGPT, was released by the artificial intelligence company Open AI in November 2022. ChatGPT has been tested on various domains, including education and training, entertainment, predicting questions, scheduling and booking appointments, and debugging codes. ChatGPT has also been used in healthcare to provide medical information and assistance [1]. ChatGPT is an AI trained as an interactive conversational model chatbot and can perform sophisticated functions in response to users' entries, including seeking and clarifying through follow-up questions, challenging underlying definitions, and stating and questioning assumptions. ChatGPT is different in that it can be generative, create a new text based on various inputs, and is a free-to-use application. ChatGPT provides virtually instant, comprehensive, and logical text responses in any format and genre requested and is undetectable by current plagiarism software. ChatGPT test’s ability to envision and respond to its possible influences on higher education. Its response was as follows. ChatGPT was able to provide a coherent, compelling, and very human-like response within 10 seconds of receiving the query and was equally capable of meaningfully responding to follow-up prompts [2]. This article highlights the challenges and opportunities that here this technology presents to nursing and health science education, including concerns around academic integrity and privacy and the need for educators to adapt quickly to ensure staff training and comprehensive policies are in place.