The
Centre for Learning and Teaching (CLT) and the Centre for
Curriculum Development and Innovation (CCDI) organised Teaching Forum 5.0 at
both Sungai Long and Kampar Campuses, and via Microsoft Teams on 5 April
2023. The
hybrid forum was
moderated by Faculty of Creative Industries (FCI) academic Dr Kristina
Francis and Faculty of Information and Communication Technology (FICT)
academic Assoc Prof Ts
Dr Goh Hock Guan.
Dr Poo Kuan Hoong was invited as the speaker for the forum. Dr Poo is
currently working as lead data scientist at BAT, where he plays a pivotal
role in the development and implementation of Revenue Growth Management
(RGM) strategies. A PhD graduate in Computer Science from Nagoya Institute
of Technology (Japan), he has extensive expertise in data-driven
decision-making and a strong background in leveraging Data Science and AI
technologies. The forum aimed to educate academics on how to utilise ChatGPT
for productivity.
Dr Poo
Dr
Kristina (left) and Dr Goh moderating the forum at Sungai Long Campus and
Kampar Campus respectively.
Dr Poo’s presentation topic was titled “How to use ChatGPT for
productivity”.
He began the session by introducing himself. He then shared the background
of ChatGPT, saying, “ChatGPT is a large language
model developed by a company called OpenAI. The word ChatGPT is the model
behind ChatGPT, which is GPT. What is GPT? GPT stands for
Generative Pre-trained
Transformer. It’s a large language model that has been trained on a massive
dataset of texts to generate people-like texts.”
Dr Poo using diagrams and flow charts to explain how ChatGPT works
“Before we jump to what ChatGPT
does, remember that it is just an app. So how do we use ChatGPT? Just go to
chat.openai.com, and it will present an input; the input is what we call a
‘prompt’. We need to give instructions to prompt. An example of a prompt is
when I give the instruction to translate an English sentence into Spanish.
ChatGPT will know that I am asking it to translate and the response will
then be shown. By using the right keyword (prompt), we can make ChatGPT
provide the output,” explained Dr Poo.
Dr Poo demonstrating how to use ChatGPT
Dr Poo
also shared his experience of utilising ChatGPT as a content creator,
researcher, and learner, as well as for getting things done (GTD). He
explained, “How do I use ChatGPT as a content creator? I can ask ChatGPT to
generate a topic for a podcast with the title ‘What is the future of genetic
AI?’ I can ask ChatGPT
to write a profile for me. I can also ask ChatGPT to create 10 slides for
me. Lastly, Instagram posts. I can ask ChatGPT to write a post for me. If I
am a researcher or academician, I can use ChatGPT to design a teaching plan
or training outline. I can also ask ChatGPT to summarise papers that
are published, for instance, before September 2021.”
How Dr Poo uses
ChatGPT
He further explained, “ChatGPT can do a lot of things for people. It’s like
using Google but in a more convenient and easy way. There is a possibility
that ChatGPT may replace Google Translate in another five years since
ChatGPT can understand images and video, unlike Google Translate.”,
Dr Poo also shared other GPT resources that have the same functions as
OpenAI which include Bing Chat, Bard-Google, You.com, Notion AI and
Perplexity AI.”
In a nutshell, Chat GPT is a powerful tool that can be used to boost
productivity in many areas. It should be used to augment people’s skills or
knowledge to produce better and more efficient outputs,” Dr Poo shared.
The forum ended with a Q&A and a group photography session.
CCDI Head Dr Ngeow Yeok Meng presenting a
fruit basket to Dr Poo as appreciation
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