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Generative AI in HDR

Understanding the role of Generative AI during your HDR studies

Clarify the rules and risks around Generative AI at UOW

At UOW, HDR candidates can use generative AI, such as Chat GPT, to assist their research and their development.  For example, they can use generative AI to optimise their research methods, practice these methods, facilitate data analysis, improve their writing capabilities, develop career skills, and pursue jobs or internships.  However, candidates need to be aware of the following cautions. To understand the boundaries around these cautions as well as other risks, please read Cautions about AI (PDF) in detail.

Caution principles 

  1. Private information: Do not upload private information—like copyrighted articles, sensitive data, or intellectual property—unless the AI tool is secure and private.
  2. Plagiarised answers: Paraphrase the output of AI like you would paraphrase an article. Do not represent the output of AI tools as your own work.
  3. Verify answers: AI tools often present false or inaccurate output.  So, do not imply the output is correct unless you use verify the information.
  4. Acknowledge use: Acknowledge all use of AI in the acknowledgements section and learn how to cite AI outputs in accordance with your referencing system.

To acknowledge the use of generative AI, include something like the following template in your acknowledgments page. The italics represent examples.

I acknowledge the use of ChatGPT 4.0 and Google Gemini to complete my thesis and research.

I used these tools to identify limitations in past research, uncover potential measures, and identify, but not correct, writing errors.

I did not insert any answers generated by these tools verbatim—but instead used these answers to inspire some ideas.

To illustrate my use of generative AI, here is a representative sample of prompts I entered.

    • What are the limitations of these three methods to measure diabetes?
    • What are the assumptions that underpin a ridge regression?

Additional information, further reading and helpful tips

To learn how to use AI to improve your research, please read these documents on:

To learn more advanced uses of AI, consider these documents on:

Here are some other resources that could be useful:

See References and further information (PDF)

Contact information for advice from AI experts

For advice about generative AI, these experts could act as advisors or even co-supervisors:

Name
Email
Interests and expertise around AI

Alyce Mason

alyce_mason@uow.edu.au 
  • Deputy Director of the Learning, Teaching, and Curriculum Division as well as Chair of the Divisional Artificial Intelligence Response Taskforce—and thus can offer a wide range of insights around the educational impact and appropriate use of generative AI

Ann Rogerson

ann_rogerson@uow.edu.au
  • Appropriate use of Al.

 

 Armin Alimarndani

armin_alimardani@uow.edu.au 
  • Responsible and appropriate use of GenAi in the legal field
  • How to develop AI tools

Albert Munoz Aneiros

albert_munoz@uow.edu.au

 

Christopher Moore

chris_moore@uow.edu.au
  • Use of AI for creative purposes and critical purposes in the humanities

Simon Moss

simon_moss@uow.edu.au 
  • AI prompts to facilitate research
  • Appropriate use of AI in HDR

Wanqing Li

wanqing_li@uow.edu.au
  • Researcher in generative AI, natural language processing, and machine learning

Yves Saint James Aquino

yves_aquino@uow.edu.au
  • Ethics of AI for healthcare applications

 Library

Consultation bookings
  • Appropriate use of AI.
  • Use of AI to review the literature

 

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Once this page is ready, you will be able to trial or learn to develop some AI tools, customised to suit your needs and goals.

What's news?

Here are the latest events and insights around generative AI, such as communities of practice, workshops, and hackathons. 

16 July 2024 - A report from environmental Micheal Thomas revealed that a query from Chat GPT or Google Gemini consumes 10 times the electricity of a traditional Google Search. So, in 2023, Google and Microsoft combined, consumed more electricity than many nations, such as Jordan and Tunisia.

 

17 July 2024 - Andrej Karpathy, a co-founder of OpenAI, has launched Eureka.  This platform uses AI teaching assistants to help students learn course materials from various institutions. 

 

18 July 2024 - Microsoft has launched the next version of Designer—an app that enables users to create clip art, emojis, stickers, wallpapers, and other patterns from text prompts as well as edit or restyle these images. Uses can also enter prompts to transform image backgrounds.