September General Meeting

ChatGPT-5 for Technical Geeks: From Tutor to Research Companions

Speaker: Jorgen Nielsen, Associate Professor, Schulich School of Engineering, Department of Electrical and Software Engineering, University of Calgary

There is significant hype regarding the emerging AGI that ranges from a dismal dystopia of a wandering purposeless society ruled by bad actors to "it's just a fad and will pass" to a promise of a turbocharged economy that will result in universal wealth creation. Everyone has an opinion, and an additional one is not needed. Instead, this talk will have a narrow focus specifically on ChatGPT-5 as an assistant in technical learning and research. How close are we to a personal engineering student tutor for learning a technical field such as electromagnetics, physics or circuits? Can this be extended to a research companion? Is ChatGPT-5 creative, innovative? Can it come up with the next patent? Will it allow the West to regain its innovative prowess, which seems to have atrophied?

Jorgen Nielsen is currently an academic at the University of Calgary in the Department of Electrical and Software Engineering. His current research interests are in applied electromagnetics for antennas, sensors and wireless communications as well as machine learning for signal processing algorithms.

Slides from this presentation are available (PDF), along with a recording of the presentation.

707 Fifth

707 - 5 St. S.W.
Third floor conference room C

Parking is available one block south of the meeting location, at the Centennial Parkade (Lot 54).

5:30 PM, Tuesday, September 23, 2025

Snacks at 17:30. Meeting begins at 18:00.

Attendance is free for CUUG members, or $10 (cash or e-transfer) at the door for non-CUUG members.

RSVP to office at CUUG if you plan to attend.

2025 Board of Directors

At the June 2025 Annual General Meeting, the following people were elected to the Board of Directors for 2025/2026:

• Alan Dewar (President)
• Greg King (Secretary-Treasurer)
• Alex Chow
• Dick Miller
• Rebecca Reid