genAI 101

The resources below are a good starting point if you haven’t yet been able to spend much time using or thinking about genAI tools. Because these materials were generated in January, many of them are specific to ChatGPT, though most principles apply to the many other genAI tools that now exist.

For further information, head on over to our genAI 201 section.

Intro to ChatGPT and Large-Language Models

We started our on-campus conversations about generative AI with a session back in January.

• Access link to Zoom recording of the entire session. (Recommendations on “what to do” start at 23:30). 
• Pressed for time? Take a look at this 3-minute video segment of CS professor Clif Presser explaining how large language models like ChatGPT work.
• Access link to session slides; Recommendations on what to do here 
• What is ChatGPT? A helpful primer. (Washington Post)