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A three-hour hands-on workshop giving a brief history of the last few months of development of "Generative AI."

 

These generative AI services and these Large Language Models, offer present promise and peril -- disruption -- to ways of working and of learning. Outside the "hype," these tools are "calculators for words" and allow the same manipulation and reflection of a user's words as a calculator offers for a user's numbers.

 

This workshop introduces basic concepts, dispels myths, demonstrates effective prompting techniques, and offers a venue for Q&A around these services, how they work, and how we should use them.

 

We hope to provide a webcast link, but in-person attendance is required for full participation, as is the use of a laptop for full participation in all exercises.

 

Remember: a LLM is "Always confident and usually correct."