Mastering AI Chatbots: Optimizing Research through Effective Use

Skills training LBG Career Center

Hannah Metzler & Konstantin Hebenstreit
Slides: https://github.com/hannahmetzler/ai_skills

2025-04-29

Who are we?

Dr. Hannah Metzler

Complexity Science Hub
Psychology, Neuroscience & Data Science
https://hannahmetzler.eu | metzler@csh.ac.at

Konstanstin Hebenstreit, M.Sc.

Artificial Intelligence Institute at Meduni Vienna
Artificial Intelligence, LLMs & Data Science
konstantin.hebenstreit@meduniwien.ac.at

Who are you?

• Scientific discipline & topic area
• Which problems do you encounter when using LLMs?
• What works well?
• If any: particular expectation or interests for today

(Rough) plan for the day

9h00 - 9h30	Welcome, setup & short introduction
9h30 - 10h30	Introduction to LLMs
10h30 - 11h00	Ethical Considerations
	Coffee break
11h15 - 12h30	Chatbot Essentials
	Lunch break
13h30 - 14h15	Advanced Prompting
14h15 - 15h00	Deep Research Mode
	Coffee break
15h15 - 16h00	Customizing Chatbots
16h00 - 16h45	Scientific tools based on LLMs
16h45 - 17h00	Resource Sharing & Open Questions & Feedback

Slides for today

• Introduction to LLMs
• Ethics
• Chatbot essentials
• Advanced prompting strategies
• Deep Research Mode
• Customizing Chatbots
• Scientific tools based on LLMs
• Collection of use cases
• Resources

Access to LLM chatbots for today

• Did you all create a Gemini pro trial account?
• Do you have accounts on ChatGPT and Claude? (or Gmail account details to log in)

Introduction to LLMs

Slides