Welcome to Week 2!

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This week’s email is filled with more AI goodness.

• 👨‍🏫 ChatGPT Prompt of the Week: Evaluating Expert Evidence

• 🤔 Could ChatGPT Write the NBE Bill?

• 👨‍⚕️ AI v Doctors - Who Wins for Empathy?

• 🧰 ChatGPT for Business + Data Privacy

• 🍗 AI Roast of the Week - the RMA

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👨‍🏫 ChatGPT Prompt of the Week: Evaluating Expert Evidence

We'll provide you with an example prompt each week that you can use with ChatGPT.

This week’s prompt helps you create a methodology for evaluating expert evidence. We see this prompt as being helpful for those wanting to create their own framework for evaluation. You could then tweak the methodology, record it offline, and use on ChatGPT in scenarios where you may like to sense check your own professional evaluation.

Example prompt:

You're an expert at designing methodological frameworks.

Your task is to prepare a practice note which sets out a methodology for evaluating different expert opinions. These experts could be planners, engineers, scientists, urban designers etc.

The audience of the practice note would be any expert tasked with evaluating expert evidence. This could include planners working for district or regional consent authorities, hearings panels, or the Environment Court.

Set out the methodology in a way that is easy to understand for any expert who may be in a position of needing to assess different expert opinions.

After setting out the methodology, create an expert scenario of differing expert opinions, and show how the methodology would be applied, with an outcome.

Here is an example methodology created from this prompt:

Below is an example scenario that the model then applies the methodology to:

🤔 Could ChatGPT write the NBE Bill?

This was a tounge-in-cheek question asked of Minister David Parker at the NZPI Conference in Christchurch in April this year.

However, it got us thinking. Could ChatGPT have assisted in creating a more simplified, streamlined version of the Bill that still gave effect to the high-level reform outcomes set out in the explanatory note?

We think it could, though it would still be a huge undertaking.

Without giving it any idea of the actual proposed sections in the Bill, below is a sample of its proposed structure. Interestingly, it has proposed a co-governance structure, whereas this is explicitly not proposed in the NBE.

What if you ask it to draft a section of the Bill?

We picked “Purpose and Objectives of the Act” because we think that would be a key interest area for many.

This is its explanation of why it drafted Section 1.3 as above:

It’s not perfect, but honestly, it’s far easier to read and understand than what we’re currently getting.

Perhaps AI will in future offer a helping-hand in offering the ‘starting point’ for drafting of policy and legislation.

👨‍⚕️ AI v Doctors - Who Wins for Empathy?

A new study comparing ChatGPT vs. Doctors for responding to actual patient questions demonstrated that people prefer ChatGPT for more accurate and empathic responses.

This suggests that despite the ‘knowledge’ of AI not being ‘real’, it has a real edge on showing empathy in some professional fields.

This is relevant for planning as we can sometimes find it difficult to connect with communities, either due to being too ‘technical’, or as a result of having little emotional space around high workloads to demonstrate true empathy for community concerns and needs.

🧰 ChatGPT for Business + Data Privacy Fix

Last week, Open AI announced the option to disable chat history in ChatGPT.

You can do this right now by selecting Settings > Show > Toggle Chat History & Training.

The move comes amid many companies banning ChatGPT over concerns that confidential information may be used to train the AI model.

This includes numerous large businesses in New Zealand, and government bodies like MBIE and Kāinga Ora.

As a result of the change, ChatGPT is no longer banned for access in Italy - phew, for the Italians - and the product is now ready to be tailored specifically to enterprise customers.

In fact, on the latter, ChatGPT for Business is in the works and will be launched soon. This is great news, as currently costs could become quite prohibitive at US$20 per month, per employee.

🍗 AI Roast of the Week - the RMA

Each week, we’re going to include in this newsletter something funny ('roast' section). We’ll try to keep it light-hearted and focused on general planning-related topics rather than targeting specific individuals or organisations - we’re all friends here!

The End (for now)

Thank you for reading our second issue of AI-mpowered. We hope you found the content valuable and inspiring. You can find all issues here.

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