Research in CTS (formerly CROW) Meeting: March 6, 2024

 

Present:   Juvena Hitt, Emily Houston, Amanda Kennedy, Jerry Landau, Ben Littenberg, Charlie MacLean, Emma Rose McCadden, Gail Rose, Liliane Savard, Connie van Eeghen (10)

 1.                   Warm Up:

a.       Forbes article: overstated or not? Different opinions noted…

b.       Take a look at the New England Journal of AI

c.       ChatGPT4 is $20/month

                                                   i.      Also a Team access: $25/month for each team member: protected from sharing with the public

                                                 ii.      All other material becomes public property for training the LLM, as with everything else that is on the Internet

                                               iii.      ChatGPT4 has image generation; version 3 does not

2.                   How to use AI in research

a.       Journal’s are requiring disclosure

                                                   i.      Liliane discovered that she could replicate a paragraph in a manuscript by asking ChatGPT for the same thing, including citations (which she needs to check out)

b.       Use as a writing coach

                                                   i.      Prompt: “How would you write this in the context of that”

                                                 ii.      Helpful in generating outlines

                                               iii.      Can provide writers’ feedback, instead of going to a writing center

                                               iv.      Know its limits: hallucinations in an authoritative tone

c.       There is skill in developing prompts

                                                   i.      COURSERA: https://www.coursera.org/learn/generative-ai-for-everyone

d.       NIH: NIH study section peer reviewers may not use AI: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-23-149.html

e.       Use for creating an abstract from a previously written manuscript, or a lay language summary

f.        Scholar GPT will access PubMed and other scholarly sources, e.g. “write a paragraph about Bayesian statistics and why medical journal editors are not fond of tis type of analysis. Please include citations and references.”

3.                   For developing a poster: develop a poster, attach two files – and see what you get! (But cannot use proprietary software, like PPT)

a.       Trial of creating an academic conference ready for submission poster based on a previously published article: result was a bit hallucinatory

b.       Google “how to create a poster with ChatGPT”: result was a marketing poster

4.                   Many other uses: not completely accurate but a great starting point

a.       A spreadsheet of the 251 towns in VT

b.       Assessment of patient stories: do they need a hip replacement or a banister for their stairs?

c.       The development of trust in how we use this new tool, and how we talk about setting expectations and the transparency of its use

d.       AI guidance on behavioral management of ADHD: https://goblin.tools/ - describes all the tasks of a possibly overwhelming project

5.                   Next meeting: March 14, 2024: write a paragraph using ChatGPT 3.5 (OpenSource); make sure it is a writing product that is valuable to you. Scrutinize the result; don’t make any assumptions.

 

Recorded by: CvE