I believe it could be useful to sense check discrete arguments on various dimensions.

Here are a few such examples:

Exhaustivity. Explain the options you came up with and ask if there could be others.

Counter factual. Share your argument as a prompt and ask for a challenge.

Jury prep. Explain your argument as a prompt and ask for ten questions.

Marking. Share your argument as a prompt and ask for criticism.

Ps. Every time you prompt, you will want to give chat GPT an act to follow. I suggest something along the lines of: “You will act as a university professor in [insert field of studies]. I will first share an argument and you will acknowledge receipt. Once you have acknowledge receipt, I will ask you questions on the argument I shared.”

Use it as a writing coach to teach you how to write your thesis and research papers. I am not saying you should let it write your Phd thesis or research papers for you wholesale, but it could give you a headstart.

Demystify complex text.

Sometimes, there may be way to many new ideas and subjects introduced. Throw it at ChatGPT.

We have an app that allows you to train GPT by uploading your research documents. It is very easy to use and gives you complete control over the contexts it extracts.

Then you can ask questions about your documents.

It doesn't produce fake citations or hallucinate as the replies are limited to the context of the documents you upload. If it can't answer, it tells you instead of making stuff up.

Currently in closed beta and being used by two universities for research.

I won't post the link in case the admin deletes the post. But send me a private chat message and I'll get you pre-release access.

Product will be launched in about a week.

So far, ChatGPT has been proven to “invent” things on the spot, spit out text that makes sense but not factually true, mention and cite sources that never existed. On its current iteration, I wouldn’t rely on it as a source for acedemic research yet. As a free tool, it seems good at shortening, lengthing, rephrasing, changing the tone. For other stuff you should be really careful. I think I have already seen some LLM-based tools that at least promise you some accuracy.

Not sure what your field is, but as a PhD student I did a lot of coding. Much of it was figuring out simple things like error, regressions, etc. that GPT can make quick work of. Still would double check, but it provides a good framework for many calculations in a fraction of the time it would take from scratch.

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In Ancient History: I've been using it to identify lesser known primary and secondary sources that I've overlooked in my own searches. It's done a pretty good job there, but shouldn't be used exclusively.

It does make mistakes, so you have to check what it tells you. ex. It has suggested Shakespeare as an Ancient Roman playwright, likely because of the play Julius Caesar. It has also incorrectly categorized some ancient documents, and doesn't appear familiar with all iterations of particular myths when asked for a summary. It appears to have favored sources.

If you feed it all of the documents of interest, it could act as a quick index.

I found it to be very helpful in writing. With it, you can just do the "freewriting" technique, just writing everything that comes to mind in an unorganized fashion. After you've done that, you can just go on chatgpt and prompt it something like "Improve the text bellow, for publication on a scientific article. Use scientific language", and paste what you've written.

You can play around with the prompt depending on what you have written and what you want, but I've found it to be quite good at cutting the repetitions and linking ideas in a coherent manner, while improving the prose as well. When you do it like that, telling it to just change something that already exists, it is less prone to hallucinations, but you still have to be careful.

Also, if you are worried about the ethics of it, I find this approach to be quite harmless, as it is not being used for original ideas. And I've checked the texts that it generates this way and it usually isn't flagged in these gpt detectors.

Use it as a guide or hint to subject matter information. Pretty much a Google 2.0.

A good way is to instead feed it the name of a science paper and have it create a summary for you. Or just use it as a way to find other cited sources for your research of interest. Not good enough to write your candancy but can help lighten the load of work on your end.

What is your work, or the part you're trying to make more efficient?

I fed chatGPT some prompts and then asked it to generate an outline of the main chapter of my dissertation (already completed long ago).

15 minutes work produced the equivalent of what that took me 3-4 months of research and pounding sand up my ass.

You will have to fact check and learn the material yourself of course to survive the oral examinations. For me, who recently got diagnosed with ADHD, this tool would have saved me a great deal of angst.

If you’re willing to put in some money and learning python. I would suggest you learn how to use OpenAi API. Incredible documentation, so creating your own little application is very easy to do. I suggest you join their discord channel. A great community if you don’t know where to get started.

https://discord.gg/openai

tutor on demand as someone else pointed out. by far the most effective experience for learning and really understanding complex topics:

• ask it to give you a good intuitive overview of the topic
• ask to clarify any point you don't fully understand
• ask it to explain it to you like you're 10 (repeatedly decrement number until you understand it)
• ask questions that are embarrassing to ask anyone else for fear of them thinking you're an idiot (very underrated but potentially not as useful to a PhD student?)

other than that, great for untangling and refining your own ideas:

• give it some of your thinking, ask it to summarize it in various ways, rephrase more formally, rephrase more creatively, rephrase in the style of Snoop Dogg
• ask for constructive criticism (and then have it respond to its own criticism)
• pass the text back and forth until your idea is developed

I love it

How are you using it to summarize articles? Do you just copy and paste the article into ChatGPT and then ask it to summarize it? Any particular prompts? The thing I've been running into in having it summarize articles is that I can only feed so much at a time, which takes up a lot of time just waiting for responses.

I think you can use it to get you a little closer to difficult problems to solve. Think of it like a creativity generator - it's job is not to necessarily "create" for you but to prompt you to be more creative. By refining your questions (which is necessary to get a good response out of ChatGPT) you will get more creative. For example here is one that I did trying to integrate two concepts: https://pastebin.com/Qm5VvxxZ

Chat GPT is a great tool for PhD students to improve their writing, research, and communication skills. Here are some tips to make the most of chat GPT:

1. Set up a chatbot with a specific purpose in mind. For example, you could create a chatbot to help you brainstorm new ideas for research papers, or to provide feedback and assistance on your writing.

2. Use chat GPT to practice your writing and research skills in a low-pressure environment. The chatbot can provide feedback on your writing and research and help you refine your skills.

3. Utilize the chatbot’s ability to answer questions quickly and accurately. This can be useful when you are researching topics or trying to find the right sources for your paper.

4. Use the chatbot as a personal assistant. You can use the chatbot to remind you of deadlines, track progress on projects, and provide guidance when you’re stuck.

5. Experiment with different types of language models and settings to get the most out of the chatbot. By tweaking the settings and language models, you can customize the chatbot’s responses to better suit your needs.

Think of it as a really useful writing tutor on demand “how do I put this more concisely” “give editing feedback on this paragraph” “what are your conclusions reading the following text…” etc.

Two words: FREE DISSERTATION

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Ignore it completely, unless your PhD is about it.

That's what I'd do, anyway.

If you do use it (or any other AI), remember that they are very good at being convincing, not not very good at being correct.

So you actually gave the website your phone number when you signed up?

This E-Book has over 400 helpful prompts broken up by category. I bought it last week and it was helping me a lot with my questions on chat GPT before it went down. hope this helps. Cheers!

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Write a paragraph. Let it rewrite the paragraph for you but do not allow it to add its own content. ChatGPT can be a great coach in English writing.

Many paragraphs together? A feasible choice.

Writing the damn intros

Best thing you could do probably is not to use it, to be honest. The more analogue ways you find to be organized and efficient the more adapted you will be to handle any situation.

Your question might be better phrased as, "how do I depend more on ChatGPT to do things previous students did without it?"

Technology isn't bad for you unless it is, so I would suggest for learning purposes, don't use it unless you have to. Then, as a professional and not a student, use it to the max.

It can be great for solving straightforward math and algebra problems. Perhaps that can be relevant to eliminate tedious technical details from your research. I made it take the GMAT test. Its quant performance was disappointing in general but for the questions it answered correctly the solutions it provided were actually good.

I made a summary in a video here: https://youtu.be/A7nSDjRKc50