Beginner Corner Blog Posts

Here is a note from our beginner blog posts on how to use a large language model (LLM) or AI assistant to help you with learning SAP.
One key thing to remember is that if you’re using an AI assistant or a LLM to help you study, do not ask it questions about SAP without added context. The information that the LLM has been trained on could be inaccurate or out of date.

What you need to do is go to an official knowledge source, for example, learning.sap.com. You should study this content first and then paste it into a large language model of your choice. Then, ask it to summarize the content for you.

What’s important here is that you specify that the LLM only use the knowledge and information that you provided from the official source. This helps lower the risk of hallucination or getting incorrect answers from the large language model.

To understand how a large language model works with your inputs, I recommend going to a prompt engineering website for an explanation.

An example

Here is an example of how I have used a LLM to help me learn:

What you can do

Here are some prompts that you can try based on the content that you feed into the LLM:

Summarizing:
Prompt: Summarize the key points of this content in a concise paragraph.
Prompt: Provide a bullet-point list of the most important facts and concepts from this text.

Analogies, Metaphors and Stories (My favorite approach):
Prompt: Explain this concept using an analogy a 10-year-old would understand.
Prompt: Create a metaphor that captures the essence of these concepts.
Prompt: Write a story to make the key parts of this material memorable

Mnemonics and Memory Aids:
Prompt: Generate a mnemonic device to remember these key points.
Prompt: Create a catchy phrase or song that includes the main ideas of this content.

Q&A / Quizzing:
Prompt: Generate a list of potential quiz questions based on this material.
Prompt: Ask me 5 challenging questions about the content I just provided.
Prompt: If a person who wants oddly specific details about this content wrote a certification exam about this content, what sort of questions might they ask?

Other ideas:
Prompt: I consider myself to be a “xyz” type of learner- what are some recommendations for how I can better understand and remember this content?

Final disclaimer

Once again, it is extremely important that you read the original content with your own eyes first to verify that these study aides are making sense. There is always a risk of hallucination with large language models – the quality of your prompts with the provision of the content you want it to review for you helps mitigate, but not eliminate, that risk.

What are some recommendations or ideas regarding using an AI Assistant or Chatbot as a SAP Learning coach?