Write a Research Proposal in 2 Days with Elicit

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In this video, Jan Hendrick Kircher, former PhD supervisor and current OpenAI researcher explains how he uses Elicit to quickly create research proposals.

Jan's method covers how to quickly get to grips with the background and issues of your proposed research. With this comes a short literature review and a summary of key debates and developments in the field. All of this is made quicker with Elicit. He explains how he takes the academic papers he finds with Elicit.org and summarizes them in his notetaking app of choice, Roam Research. Using Elicit to quickly uncover all of the relevant academic literature, assessing what problems and issues are to be explored and why they are worth exploring are a piece of cake.

Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
00:21 - Context for Research Proposal
01:30 - Finding Papers with Elicit
02:23 - The Expansion Phase of Research
04:00 - Abstract Summarization with Elicit
04:53 - Why use Abstract Summarization?
06:25 - Jan's Writing Framework (TSPSI)
08:06 - Brainstorm Research Questions with Elicit
08:54 - Why the Brainstorming Task is so useful (Sub questions)
10:46 - Considerations with using AI Summaries
13:44 - Expansion Phase to Contraction Phase
15:38 - Expand Reasoning Chain Task in Elicit
17:45 - Where to find Jan's Writing

What is Elicit?

Elicit is an AI research assistant that helps you answer questions "by making qualitative reasoning steps explicit and using language models like GPT-3 to incrementally automate those steps." Elicit's main workflow is a literature review. If you ask a question, Elicit will show relevant papers and summaries of key information about those papers in an easy-to-use table.

How do people use Elicit?

Some of our most engaged researchers report using Elicit to find initial leads for papers, answer questions, and get perfect scores on exams (via Elicit Slack). One researcher used a combination of Elicit Literature Review, Rephrase, and Summarization tasks to compile a literature review for publication.

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Interview conducted by Sahan Perera-Merry (‪@sahanpm‬ )