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Gen-AI Summarizing Articles
In this video, Dr. Bjorn Mercer, a Department Chair in the School of Arts, Humanities, and Education, explains how to use Copilot to efficiently summarize articles for research purposes. This video is particularly useful for students who need to sift through multiple sources to support their papers, essays, and presentations.
Dr. Mercer begins by highlighting the importance of having a clear context and prompt when using generative AI tools like Copilot. He demonstrates how to provide Copilot with a web link to an article and request a summary. This process can save students valuable time by quickly condensing lengthy articles into concise summaries. Dr. Mercer uses the example of researching a 16th-century Spanish friar, showing how Copilot can generate a three-paragraph summary that includes key points and a citation.
However, Dr. Mercer also notes the limitations of Copilot. It cannot access PDFs hosted on specific academic repositories or summarize content from platforms like ProQuest ebook Central that require specific access permissions. Despite these limitations, Copilot can be a powerful tool for summarizing articles that are generally accessible online.
By the end of the video, viewers will understand how to use Copilot to summarize articles effectively, ensuring they have the necessary information to support their research while saving time and effort.
Using this video’s transcript, Copilot assisted with drafting the overview.
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