Laurel Papworth, an experienced Artificial Intelligence and Metaverse expert. She has lectured for 20 years on AI applications, and currently has a particular focus on ChatGPT, better prompting, and Microsoft 365 CoPilot including finetuning AI on organisation documents. Her extensive background in decentralised economies and virtual communities, highlighted by Forbes, complements her consultancy that merges tech expertise and social psychology in AI-driven Metaverse strategies. Laurel is a prominent educator and speaker, also actively engaged in online MMORPG communities.
In 2023, Laurel was pleased to announce she has licensed her AI course at Australian Institute of Management (AIM) as she presents ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence tools at conference keynotes to large businesses, for the City of Sydney and other local government entities as well as to small business as well presenting the workshop to Corporate and Government and NonProfits. AI Is My Copilot is a practical course on how to “centaur” or “copilot”, in other words, job share with AI, as a hands-on approach.
Her courses, since 2008, include artificial intelligence in algorithms and big data including F.A.I.R (Facebook AI), object recognition, behavioural AI and semantic AI such as Lexicon™, Deep Face™/Deep Text™ and Deep Mind™. Laurel has a Cert IV in Training and Assessment.
In 2005 Laurel used her background in virtual currencies to submit a patent on decentralised currency for Play to Earn fitness using IoT, 3 years before Bitcoin. She taught Augmented Reality community building to Facebook, Google and Microsoft in California in 2011. Named by Forbes™ Magazine as Top 50 Most Influential Social and Online Community Expert, Laurel mentors companies visualising, building and managing Web3 and Metaverse solutions Artificial Intelligence solutions, merging technology, philosophy and social psychology to present a holistic Metaverse strategy.
Laurel consults with Australian Parliament House, Sony, banks, Channel Ten and non-profits, she has 22,000 students studying her online courses and was Head of Community (and then Social) for virtual worlds like Sony games and Iron Will games since 2001 and taught “How to Build Massive Engaged Communities” in games and on web2 social media platforms at the University of Sydney. She regularly plays World of Warcraft, Roblox and other online MMORPG games with her avatar, SilkCharm.
HigherEd: Artificial Intelligence, Algorithms and Big Data – Australia and overseas:
Laurel delivered an informative and thought-provoking session to a packed house and was rated in the top 5 speakers for the overall Congress.
Australian Business Chambers CongressI am writing to thank you for your personal contribution as a speaker as part of the AHRI HR Technology Conference. We appreciate your involvement in this event and the manner in which you developed and delivered your session as we believe it strongly enhanced the professionalism of the event.
Australian Human Resources Institute
Many thanks for delivering such a great workshop for our team at Pacific Hydro! It was very inspiring, and the team took away a lot of ideas that we now intend to develop further to become more active in the social space.
Pacific Hydro