Principal speaker
Dr Heather Shearer
With the advent of tools such as ChatGPT and Midjourney, the artificial intelligence (AI) space has become big news, much of it negative. While AI tools have potential for abuse such as plagiarism and generating false information, they can also be effectively used to help improve the efficiency of academic teaching and research. For example, they can summarise research, edit and rewrite text and quickly identify themes in interview transcripts. Used in teaching, they can generate abstracts, comment on assignments and even (with the permission and knowledge of students) help with marking. The art generators can be used to produce images as input for creative work, generate illustrations for a report or paper, and encourage learning of programming languages such as Python.
Excitingly, they have potential to be part of the workflow for other research, such as spatial and statistical analysis. This interactive talk will incorporate hands-on exercises on how to use these tools.
The talk will not explain the technicalities of how the AI large language models work, so participants do not need any IT skills.
Finally, it will summarise some of the pros and cons of the most common AI tools. AI is not going away and will soon be part of the Microsoft Office suite, so how can we as academics keep abreast of developments in this fast-moving space.
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