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GenAI: Research Tools (Advanced)

  • Pre-workshop activities: 5 min
  • Introductory presentation: 15 min
  • Hands-on activities: 60-90 min

About the workshop

Workshop participants will explore the use of Generative AI (GenAI) including installing and using local Generative AI software on a laptop, using specific documents as the training data for the GenAI tool, and performing sentiment analysis on free from survey questions. In the hands-on portion of the workshop, participants will explore GenAI tool usage and output evaluation for accuracy and biases. The workshop will also encourage informed, responsible GenAI use.

Learning objectives

At the end of this workshop, you will be able to:

  1. Install GenAI software on your laptop including 1 or more large language models (not cloud-based), and use it to answer a question.
  2. Use the local GenAI software and select a folder of documents on your computer to use as training data; then ask questions of the documents.
  3. Use GenAI tools for Sentiment Analysis on free-form survey questions or social media posts.
  4. Upload an Excel spreadsheet, and then request a summary and insights from the data.
  5. Import transcripts onto NotebookLM
  6. Use NotebookLM to identify key ideas/themes from transcripts
  7. Use NotebookLM to synthesize different transcripts
  8. Save insights generated from NotebookLM

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Generative AI Workshop Pathway

This workshop is part of our Generative AI Workshop Pathway. The Pathway workshops are designed to help subject area experts and non-experts, and help meet the needs of students, faculty, & staff by offering foundational to advanced research & productivity skills training: