A Socratic dialogue with ChatGPT: Optimize your documentation using AI

  • Tutorial
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machines and Robots
  • 24. September
  • 04:00 PM (CEST) - 05:00 PM (CEST)
  • Titanium
  • finished
  • Dr. Yulia Rönsch

    Dr. Yulia Rönsch

Contents

AI is only as clever as your questions to it are. 

In this session, I will show you how to optimize a software documentation, make it concise without loosing any critical information. 

Editing even a single article requires a few iterations with ChatGPT. I will give you examples of bad, misleading questions and good, context related questions. When interacting with an AI, it is important to "guide" it into self-learning and acquiring a new information on its own, but you have to propel it in the right direction, e.g., point to a few critical sources, explain some context in your own words, etc. Indeed, you need to arrive at some compromise so that chatting with ChatGPT does not cost you more time than a direct editing. 

Censhare is quite a niche product and it is important to know it before trying to optimize its documentation, which is also very technical and "insider-oriented". That's why it is a perfect example of the challenges of using AI to support your writing and/or revise and enhance your existing technical documentation.

Takeaways

  • how to brief ChatGPT to edit and optimize your content 
  • limitations: quality check and product knowledge

Speaker

Dr. Yulia Rönsch

Dr. Yulia Rönsch

Biography

Yulia writes all kinds of software documentation, maintains publishing automations for seamless content delivery, helps to set up clear processes where necessary, and uses creative part of her personality for ad-hoc solutions. She is currently discovering the world of AI, using her Python programming skills, as well as knowledge and experience from working on software products with AI or similar capabilities. 

Yulia obtained her Ph.D. (Dr.Phil.) in communication science from the University of Technology Dresden in 2016.