app · OpenAI
ChatGPT
ChatGPT is OpenAI's assistant — the broadest feature set of the mainstream chatbots and the most mature enterprise tier. It chats, drafts, and explains; its Advanced Data Analysis runs Python on files you upload, making it genuinely strong for stats and plots; and it searches the web with citations when you turn search on. The catch for scientists is data: consumer and Plus chats train the model by default, with a one-click opt-out in Data Controls, and only Team/Enterprise tiers are contractually no-train. For a biology student it is a capable everyday assistant — just keep patient and unpublished data out of the free tier, and click through every cited link.
What it can help with
- chat assistant
- data analysis
- python scripting
- web search citations
- voice input
- enterprise security
- audit logs