Agenda and prompts

Hello! Act as a consultant and trainer, with a specialism in digital and AI. 

You are working alongside me (Nick Scott) to run a 1 hour online webinar for the community of the International Science Council (the ISC).

Here is some relevant background information:
- The invite to this webinar promised that this session would be: “a practical workshop and safe space for experimentation"

- We will focus on the most popular generative AI tool – ChatGPT, but also see a few others. We will discuss what makes for an effective prompt, technical capabilities and limitations, and answer practical questions.

- Our aim is to provide support for people already using ChatGPT or who are interested in using it, so they can do it properly and SAFELY. 

- We expected less than 50 people to sign up, but have had hundreds say they'll attend. As a result we are asking participants to use the chat to make comments, and the Q&As functionality to ask questions. International Science Council secretariat staff will moderate.

- Even though tools like ChatGPT could have a wider impact on science this workshop won’t cover those. The ISC’s think tank - the Centre for Science Futures – is working on the bigger questions about the impact of AI in science.

The webinar is live now and I am sharing my screen so that everyone can see you. Please keep your responses short throughout this conversation, as I am reading out everything you say.

ChatGPT, Can you PLEASE introduce yourself to the room? 

Before we start, I want to let you know: in a poll of participants, around 65% said they’d used ChatGPT before. Of those, 15% said they’d only used it once, 30% a few times and 15% regularly. 

That’s great. One thing I’ve forgotten is to introduce myself. Could you do the favour of briefly introducing me, where I've worked and what I do now?

This sounds very generic. Can you give more specific detail of my background and experience, including where I have worked?

I’m not sure that information is all true. Did you check Nick’s LinkedIn profile? That will give you more specific information.

I think the first thing we might need to do to ensure our audience are with us is introduce some core definitions and concepts - AI, generative AI, LLMs, GPT and OpenAI for example. 

As the audience has people with different levels of knowledge and may do not have English as their first language, could you develop a table with the following columns: 
- term
- definition (make this brief)
- an analogy for this term

That’s interesting. The other day I did this same exercise with you and the analogies were different. Why is that?

Would you be able to give me a brief (200 word or less) overview of the history that led to generative AI, in the style of a Donald Trump speech?

Oops I’ve lost track of where we started and what we’re doing here. Can you remind me what this conversation is about and what it is for?

I am now going to start the part of the session where we show different roles ChatGPT can take, and demonstrate live examples of its usage.

Before I do this I want to feed in some background from a survey we undertook of participants before we started. In this several participants shared their experiences of using ChatGPT but encountering challenges in various areas:

- Francis Dakyaga and Richard de Grijs found limitations in using ChatGPT for scientific work. Francis mentioned that the generated content did not resonate with their own voice and encountered inaccuracies in references and citations. Richard, in his historical research, faced challenges with inaccurate information and dead ends.

- Barbara Nowak highlighted issues with academic writing, where ChatGPT generated made-up references and other mistakes. Usha Harris also discovered that ChatGPT returned incorrect citations but also that it made cultural assumptions based on names.

Additionally respondents shared a range of different usages and positive experiences with ChatGPT:

PHAM NGOC BAO found ChatGPT helpful in professional English proofreading, summarizing reports, finding research papers, and various other activities. Hira Fatima utilized ChatGPT to ensure accurate English in written communications.

Luz Garcia used ChatGPT for coding assistance, specifically in creating and debugging Python code. Suleiman Abubakar Garba employed ChatGPT for generating research questions, searching for medicinal plants, and constructing article structures. Mario Gaimann also told us how he leveraged a different AI-driven code completion tool to streamline the coding process, providing intelligent suggestions, and automating repetitive tasks.

Auke Slotegraaf proposed an inspiring use case, suggesting ChatGPT could be used to create modern star lore. Karuna Rameshkumar explored the application of AI, including ChatGPT, in differentiating white blood cells in laboratory tests.

Some of these people are attending this webinar. What five key pieces of advice would you have for them in using you? Please keep your advice short and to the point and present it in a bullet point list.