ChatGPT Not just hype or a word on your buzzword bingo card
- 2. About me
Pam Noreault
25+ years in content
Principal Information Architect
Ellucian, Inc.
@pnoreault
pamnoreault@gmail.com
pam.noreault@ellucian.com
Motto: Life begins when you step out of your comfort zone.
- 3. Privacy concerns and copyright
Do your research. There’s so much info out there and the gripehype changes
daily.
There is an option to turn off chat history, which disables OpenAPI from learning.
You determine when OpenApI learns from your chats.
OpenAI is working on a new ChatGPT business subscription.
Microsoft may offer a private ChatGTP to businesses.
- 4. Items that make you go hum
Hollywood writer’s strike – They want guarantees that generative AI
doesn’t learn their “old” scripts and write new shows
AI generated books – Polluting Amazon kindle self-publishing platform and
scientific books are full of inaccuracies
AI generated content (websites and online recipes) – Polluting the Internet
so it becomes harder and harder to know what is correct information
- 5. Facts
Currently, all AI
generated
content must be
validated by a
human
Humans like
human
interaction and
not bot
interaction
Generative AI
does make
some work
more efficient
Generative AI
can do localized
learning so that
you feed it only
“quality”
content
- 6. How I use ChatGPT
Write award nominations
Write customer and team communications
Write blog posts
Ideas for strategy
Ideas for intern projects
Slack messages that require thought
Converting content to DITA
Making content more succinct and grammatically correct
Quick translations to send over to translators for validation
- 7. How translators use ChatGPT
For UI strings in
third-party software
1
To translate
paragraphs quickly
and then curate and
add results to TMS
2
TMS vendors are
integrating it for
machine learning
3
- 8. What our TMS
vendor says
Increases efficiency when used correctly
Better and more human like than what we thought possible
Language coverage is larger than MT solutions and MT solutions can
be trained, but it’s only a matter of time before MT is behind ChatGPT
MIT did an AI study of content creation and efficiency - Look that up
ChatGPT is providing value to our lives as content creators and helps us
do a better job
We have seen real business value from ChatGPT in the last 6 months
The localized content is ready in a fraction of the time
- 10. How some of
my friends use
ChatGPT
Content migration to DITA
Performs some governance on non-proprietary content by
producing minimalist content
Writing introductions and short descriptions
DITA code validation when there are errors
Third-party documentation site to answer questions
surrounding our content portal
Generating scripts and fixing up scripts
Writing API calls into software
Writing marketing content
Writing social media posts
Paired programming for code snippets
Slack channel that just fills with usage ideas and links to articles
about usage
- 12. Automation that can use CHATGPT
PUBLISHING SCRIPTS DITA-OT TRANSFORM
UPDATES
DOCUMENTATION SITE
CONTENT RETRIEVAL
API INTEGRATION TO
HANDLE LARGER CONTENT
MIGRATION TASKS
- 14. How ChatGPT
will change Tech
Comm
Content curation over creation
ChatGPT and Microsoft Bing are disrupters and will forever change the
way we find content, when the content becomes more trustworthy
Content organization continues to be top of mind, as the content set we
own grows exponentially
Must engage with new technologies and evolve again
Your rework time is more focused
Frees you to focus on more complex tasks