Final Lab Report Exercise — Using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to Aid in Writing
For your final report you will be required to incorporate my feedback from your first draft and then you will be required to use an Artificial Intelligence (AI) platform to aid in improving the content and writing of your lab report.
Examples of AI platforms include ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini for text and reasoning, alongside specialized tools such as Synthesia (video), Midjourney (images), and Cursor (coding). Enterprise options include AWS SageMaker and Google Cloud AI. Please use the free version; you are not expected to pay for access to an AI platform.
The Artificial Intelligence (AI) platforms work by you asking it questions, and through a series of back-and-forth dialogue, you will eventually be able to obtain the information that you are seeking based on what is present on the internet. You can use this to either find or obtain new content for your lab report and/or you can use it to help improve your scientific writing.
In addition to your final lab report, I would like you to turn in a screenshot of you using the AI platform so I can see your logical steps that you used to arrive at obtaining what your goal is. An example of this is shown below…
Using AI is an iterative process that requires constant vetting of whether the information produced is actually what you are looking for. At each step, you may have to “guide” the AI chatbot to either be more specific or broad, or to go into a completely new direction.
A few examples of how you can use this tool to improve your lab report include the following…
- To rephrase writing
- Find new references to support your lab write-up content
- Obtain instructions on how to conduct new data analyses
- Generate new writing content (i.e. it will write the lab report for you)
