Using AI to discover interesting facts and statistics

(text typing) (twinkling music) - As I said in a previous video, there's a better chance of us getting great results if we're working with great information, especially if that information is stuff that other people aren't working with. So I've got to be honest, ChatGPT is not great at getting us the information and the sources that we would need. It sometimes makes things up. So the way around that is to get it instead to suggest some search queries that we can then take to a search engine to find the information that we're looking for and the correct sources. So let's start with that right now. We will put our prompt in here. You are an expert researcher with the ability to find information that other people don't notice. That's quite important. I want you to supply me with 10 search engine queries I should use to find mind-blowing facts and statistics about some topic. Make the search terms specific and powerful to help us get to the information we need faster. Present your response in a table using the columns search term and the information we are looking for. Okay, so the first bit is the search term and the second bit is to make sure that it's giving us the right results. This is particularly what we're wanting to get from the results. Right, so let's say that our topic here is, let's have something cheerful. How about the psychology of happiness? Let's see what it gives us. These are some pretty good search terms. And of course, once we're doing our search in a search engine, if we get some big document with lots of information, you can use one of the previous prompts to summarize that information into a short paragraph in bullet points. So all of this stuff really works together. Now, what we might want to do here is we might find that the studies that we're looking for aren't out there so we might want to design our own study. So I've created a prompt to do exactly that. So let me paste this prompt in here. It's a long one as you can see. You're an expert researcher with the ability to find information that other people don't notice. I want you to suggest five studies that could be done to discover interesting facts about a topic. Come up with research ideas that include quantitative and qualitative data, case studies, correlational studies, longitudinal studies, experimental studies and clinical trial studies. Consider conducting laboratory experiments, comparative analysis, observational studies, surveys, and interviews. Come up with titles for each study, a hypothesis and a methodology. We're asking for a lot here but what I've done is I've brought in the different kinds of studies, having done some research to go what are the different kinds of studies that that we can use? I've brought those in and put them into the prompt. So the prompt should be giving us what we want here. So let's put in a topic here. Let's say that our topic here is the effect of happiness on work. Let's see what it comes up with here. Now, I occasionally do my own studies but I'm not a research professional. So I don't know how robust these are really from an academic viewpoint, but from my viewpoint, this stuff looks really good. Your first stage would be to take these studies and do a search to go have they been done before? If they've been done before, fantastic. You can take the results and you can use them. If they've not, then you might be able to create your own study. So what we could do here is expand on one of these studies. So let's look here, the effect of positive reinforcement on employee happiness and productivity. Let's have a look at that one. And we can say here, can you please, oh, please expand on the methodology for the effect of positive reinforcement on employee happiness and productivity. Let's see what it does here. Now, this looks really good to me, and of course, you could ask it to break this down further into step-by-step instructions so that you would know exactly how to do this. Now, it's easier than you think to create studies, so it might be something that you want to consider. I'm a big fan of finding out my own information because if I've got my own information, then I'm working with information that other people don't have and that gives me an advantage. So there you go. This is how to find information that hopefully other people aren't dealing with, other people aren't working with, and that means that you have got an opportunity that they just don't have. (text typing) (twinkling music)