Diana Elder, AG, presents on using AI for genealogy research planning in the Research Like a Pro online course. She discusses the benefits and limitations of AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini for research planning. Diana demonstrates how AI can help create a summary of known facts from a timeline, transforming the data into different formats like CSV files and spreadsheets. She emphasizes that AI does not replace personal research experience and intuition but can provide new ideas and perspectives. Diana advises providing AI with essential information such as research objectives, timelines, and locality guides to generate more accurate and relevant plans. She suggests working in steps, asking AI for feedback, and exploring its knowledge base for additional ideas. Diana concludes by encouraging researchers to experiment with AI in their next project’s research planning phase.
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