Mastering AI Chatbots: Optimizing Research through Effective Use

LLM Workshop Karl Landsteiner Privatuniversität

Mag. Dr. Hannah Metzler
Complexity Science Hub & Medical University of Vienna

4 December 2024

Who am I?

• Postdoc & project lead at Complexity Science Hub & Meduni Vienna (and becoming a clinical psychologist)
• Social Psychology, Neuroscience & Data Science
• Research: Social media & emotions, misinformation, suicide prevention, mental health
• https://hannahmetzler.eu
  metzler@csh.ac.at
  Bluesky: @hannahmetzler

Who are you?

• Research background & topic
• One thing you have already used LLMs for
• If any: particular expectation or interests for today

Plan for the day

9h15 - 9h30	Welcome & Setup
9h30 - 10h30	Introduction to LLMs & important ethical aspects
	Coffee break
10h40 - 11h30	Chatbot essentials
11h30 - 11h50	Chatbot essentials Exercise
11h50 - 12h45	Advanced prompting strategies
	Lunch break
13h35 - 14h20	Scientific tools based on LLMs
	Short break
14h30 - 15h15	Scientific writing with chatbots
15h15 - 15h30	Resources & open questions

Actual times. - 50 min früher gestartet, bis 12h Chatbot essentials plus exercise den Vorsprung aufgebraucht. - Intro & Ethics Short mit vielen Fragen/Diskussionen: 1h, 9h25-10h25, dann 15 min Pause - Chatbot essentials: 1h10, 10h40-11h50 - Advanced prompting: 60 min wie geplant mit Exercise, 45 ohne exercise zu Halluzinationen. - Scientific tools: 30 min plus 15 Exercise ist perfekt.

Abschluss genau 6h: 15h15. Abschluss wahrscheinlich 15h30

Workshop slides for today

• Welcome & course overview
• Introduction & Ethics Short
• Chatbot essentials
• Advanced prompting strategies
• Scientific tools based on LLMs
• Scientific writing with chatbots
• Resources

Access to LLM chatbots for today

• Who has a paid account?
• Which models?
• Did all others create a Gemini pro trial account?