Using AI to summarize complex information

(keyboard clacking) (bell ringing) - If you want to come up with great ideas, with great solutions, then you need to start with great research. The brain is a processor. You've got input, process, output. People tend to think that the ones who are amazing at coming up with ideas have got much better processing, they've got stuff they do in their brains that is just special and magical. Actually, the people who I know who are the best at coming up with ideas have got amazing input. So the breadth of your input actually dictates the opportunity for your output. So we're going to start looking at how we can use ChatGPT to help us with our research so that we can get more information and better information to work with. So let's start with our first prompt here, that again, use our create framework, starting with our character, and then looking at our request, and moving on from there. So let me read out here the first prompt that we're going to work with. "You are a highly experienced writer who writes concise and readable text without stop words, filler words or jargon. I want you to summarize the following text, highlighting the most important concepts. Deliver this as a short paragraph of 100 words. Then list the most important points as bullet points. Finally, follow it with a one sentence summary. The text I want you to summarize is..." Now the text that will pick, let's think, something random, maybe text from this book here. This is a fantastic book, it's written... Oh, it's written by me. There we go. So I wrote a chapter in this where I talked about how in the future we will be using AI as our creative collaborators. And look, here we are doing a course on it right now. So let me take part of a chapter and paste it in here. This is quite a lot of text. We're going to paste in and ChatGPT is going to give us a summary. So here we go. It's working on it. "The text is about the increasing role of teamwork in the publishing of new ideas and the evolution of the concept of creativity." And there we go, as I read through it here, it's doing a pretty good job of summarizing this text. So it's done the paragraph there at the front. Now it's going through the bullet points. And here's the summary. So our final one sentence summary at the end, let's see how accurate that is. "The text is about the evolution of teamwork and creativity, including the increasing role of teamwork in publishing and the debate around whether computers can be considered creative, with a conclusion that the definition of creativity may evolve to include non-human creations." And I believe it will. This has done a really good job of summarizing this information here in a very digestible way. So there's other stuff that we can summarize. Now, what about taking a book that's already out there? We're not going to paste any text in this time. We're actually just going to rely on the information that ChatGPT already has. So "you are a highly experienced writer who writes concise and readable text without stop words, filler words or jargon." Just like before. "I want you to give me a summary of the book." Let's again, just pick a book at random here. What about "Iconic Advantage" by... Who are the authors of "Iconic Advantage?" Soon Yu and Dave Birss. Oh yes, here we go. There's another book that I helped to write. So let's put that in there, Soon Yu and Dave Birss. So this is now using the information that it has, and it's got information on this book, and it's now going to summarize this book based on what is in its dataset. And I'm just going to read through these and check that they're actually accurate. Yeah, that actually looks pretty accurate. So this isn't bad. Make sure that it's a book that is done quite well. If it's a rarer book, a more unusual book, then it won't have the information to do the summary for you. The other thing is that it will sometimes make up information. So it will sometimes add stuff in there that's not entirely true. So maybe be a little bit careful, but on the whole, this does a fantastic job of summarizing books. So let's now think about other stuff we might want summarized. And our final prompt here, we're going to look at academic thinking. So sometimes you just want to know what is the academic thinking on a particular topic, please summarize it for me so that I can get a basic understanding of it. So here we go, again, we're starting with this, "you are a highly experienced write who writes concise, readable text without stop words, filler words or jargon." Okay, now, for a request, "I want you to give me a summary of current academic thinking around the field of..." I'll put the field in there in a second. "Highlighting the most important concepts. Deliver this as a list of bullet points and follow it with a one sentence summary." So the topic that we shall go for, let's see here, neuroscience of creativity. So this is something that I know quite a bit about. So I'm able to tell you if this is accurate or not. Let's see what happens when we read through this text. This is actually great. So I was worried at the second point here where it said "the right hemisphere of the brain is commonly associated with creative abilities while the left hemisphere is linked with logical and an analytical thinking" because neuroscientists have debunked this. In the next point, it goes on to say, "however, recent research suggests that both hemispheres are involved in creative processes and work together to produce novel and useful ideas." Thank goodness it saved itself there but everything it's said here is really good. So these are three prompts that you can use to give yourself information that will help you come up with better ideas. (bell ringing) (keyboard clacking)