Will ChatGPT replace computational materials scientists?

"ChatGPT is a very impressive tool," says Zijian Hong, professor at the School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, China, and author of a new work published in the journal Energy Material Advances. "As a computational materials scientist, I'm always eager to embrace new tools, in particular, new tools in computer science and AI. Since the born of the new ChatGPT, I'm just wondering whether such a tool can assist us in computational materials science." Hong explained that for a computational materials task, there are three main steps: building a model or a structure, writing codes for specific scientific software, and preparing data visualization scripts. To test the capability of ChatGPT, he examined it from these aspects.