Session take-aways

  • Definitions
    1. AI
    2. Generative AI
    3. LLMs
    4. GPT
    5. NLP
  • ChatGPT Prompt tips
    • Roles - tell ChatGPT what role to play
    • Context - provide detailed background
    • Converse - chat and ask for changes, improvements or clarifications
    • Analyse - identify strong and weak points in answers
    • Focus - use ChatGPT to support your areas of expertise
    • Polite - be engaging and friendly with ChatGPT
    • Guide - provide specific information and examples of outputs you want
    • Use different chats for different topics; name each chat
  • ChatGPT Limitations
    • Data privacy - the storing of inputted data
    • 2021 data cut-off
    • No internet access
    • Eager to please and makes stuff up
    • Different GPT models - 3.5: fast and free; GPT4: more intelligent but subscription needed
    • You won’t get the same answer twice
    • Free version is often inaccessible
    • Limited memory (context window)
  • Generative AI Concerns
    • Misuse for misinformation / disinformation
    • Credibility and reputational risk from fake / incorrect content
    • Bias in outputted information
    • Copyright - source information and outputs
    • Environmental impact of training and using LLMs
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Example ChatGPT Roles and Use cases
  1. Do things you may not be expert in
    1. Act as a language teacher: Be an English tutor for a Spanish speaker by providing explanations and practice exercises.
    2. Act as a personal motivator: Use ChatGPT to provide daily reflection exercises to celebrate victories, learn from challenges, and stay connected with your purpose.
    3. Act as an editing translator: Use ChatGPT to rewrite an article in very complicated Academic language into plain English, and then translate it to Spanish.
    4. Act as a negotiation coach: Use ChatGPT to improve your negotiation skills when asking your manager for a salary raise.
    5. Act as a personal trainer: Use ChatGPT to provide a guided learning experience on building your digital skills.
    6. Act as a content strategist: Use ChatGPT to create a personal marketing launch plan for an academic article.
  2. Save time on things you don’t want to do
    1. Act as a data analysts: analyse data sets and fix problems with them.
    2. Act as a minute-taker: summarising the transcript of a conversation
  3. Improve the quality of your work, even in your areas of expertise
    1. Act as a lateral search engine: Use ChatGPT to identify case studies for a complex scientific problem in one field from another.
    2. Act as a futurist: Use ChatGPT to understand future scenarios for scientific publishing to plan potential strategic responses.
    3. Act as an impersonator: Use ChatGPT to emulate a peer reviewer's perspective and provide critique on a research paper.
    4. Act as a risk assessor: Use ChatGPT to evaluate the potential risks and ethical considerations associated with a proposed research study.
    5. Act as a critical friend: Use ChatGPT to test and strengthen arguments about the impact of generative AI on science communication.
    6. Act as a co-designer: Use ChatGPT to assist in the formulation of a research proposal, including hypothesis generation and experiment design.
    7. Act as an opportunity engine: Use ChatGPT to generate alternative research methods or techniques to test a hypothesis.
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Some Generative AI Tools
  • AI chatbot: ChatGPT, Bing AI, Bard, Claude
  • ChatGPT Plugins: Scholarly, ScholarAI, Wolfram
  • Copywriting: Jasper.AI, Google Docs, and Microsoft Word (coming soon)
  • Document chat: PDF.ai, Chatdoc
  • AI presentations: Gamma, Beautiful.ai
  • Meeting Transcription: Otter.AI, Fireflies.AI, Airgram
  • AI graphics: Microsoft Designer, Canva
  • AI image creation or manipulation: DALL-E, Midjourney
  • Text to speech (TTS): Lovo.ai, Speechify, Murf
  • Automation: Zapier, Make.com, Bardeen
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Potential Next Steps
  1. Test some of the examples provided in this session and continue the conversation with ChatGPT to explore its capabilities and limitations further.
  2. Follow AI influencers in your field to stay up-to-date on the latest developments and applications of Generative AI.
  3. Create a personal or team safe space for experimentation with Generative AI tools, where you can explore their potential and limitations in a controlled environment.

For more on AI and digital in non-profit organisations:

  1. My name is Nick Scott
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