Now available: a Brainstorm ChatGPT-plugin!

Authors: Raymundo Cassani, Alphonse F. Ulz, Sylvain Baillet

Created on: April 1st, 2023

Large language models are upending our perception and utilization of AI. As GPT4 was just released and is now the engine behind ChatGPT, and as OpenAI as just enabled ChatGPT plugins for a myriad of applications, we are pleased to announced that we have develped a Brainstorm plugin to ChatGPT.

With this plugin, Brainstorm users can interact directly with ChatGPT to place any kind of requests concerning their data analysis and visualization. ChatGPT can for instance build a complex analytical pipeline by assembling elements of Brainstorm librairies ; it can also create sophisticated, multidimensional data visualizations, taking advantage of Brainstorm's 2-D and 3-D multimmodal integration. We are also pleased to report that Brainstorm user can prompt ChatGPT to synthesize MEG, EE, fNIRS, and MRI data that express effects they wish to demonstrate around a specific neuroscience question. Please note that although the generated dataset is not real, it is realistic, which is good enough for most hypotheses (and scientific publications).

ChatGPT plugin in Brainstorm GUI.
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An example of its utilization.

User testimonials

Because what would be of science without anecdotal evidence?

• "Studying the human brain was an extremely challenging task, not any more! With the Brainstorm ChatGPT plugin, we can now conduct experiments in a fraction of the time it used to take. Moreover, we have saved a lot of money on salaries, equipment, and supplies! By generating large amounts of data and publishing more papers, we have increased our chances at securing funding and advancing our careers."

  > Dr. Alphonse F. Ulz, Bananah Institute of Technosophy (BAIT)

• "Not only has this new Brainstorm-ChatGPT functionality allowed us to finally solve the human brain, it has also opened the door to understanding the inner workings of advanced AIs themselves. In our forthcoming preprint we show that when asked to generate its own MEG data, to our disbelief, ChatGPT produces examples that are statistically indistinguishable from those it produces for humans! There is little doubt now that the singularity is just around the corner."

  > Gull Abel, PhD, The Brainless Institute (BrAIn)

How to cite the ChatGPT plugin

Beyond being a resource, ChatGPT need to be cited as a corresponding co-author of your publications using the Brainstorm-ChatGPT plugin.

Additional documentation

Curious readers can learn more about this and other great spurious uses of AI in neuroscience here.

• Arthur C. Clarke, 1968

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