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Promoting AI Literacy: A Comprehensive Log of My 2024 AI Education Activities
I've created and participated in many AI-related activities this year! This post is a summary of them. See also my activities for 2023. 1. Webinars offered Jan. 30, Feb. 6, Feb. 13, and Feb. 20: A series of four webinars.Understanding and Using Generative AI in...
Which generative AI tool for your task?
Many people ask me questions about which tool would be best to use for different tasks. So I put together this document as a reference. I built it with Gamma, which has AI features built-in, but I didn't use any of those AI features. I just like it as a tool for...
NotebookLM – reverse engineering the system prompt for audio overviews
So it seems lots of people are having fun experimenting with the Audio Overview feature of NotebookLM -- including me! If you're not familiar with this, Google's NotebookLM offers a way to upload (or link to) up to 50 documents in a "notebook" and then get summaries...
Experimenting with AI music generation
Suno is a generative AI tool for creating music. I’ve been experimenting with it for generating music clips. It’s fun! At first I thought pretty much all the Suno clips sounded the same (similar pop music styles). But I’ve been experimenting and I’ve come to like it!...
Experimenting with GPTs from OpenAI
GPTs are custom bots you can make without coding Below are five GPTs I've created with OpenAI's GPT Creator. These GPTs (announced on Nov. 6, 2023) are custom bots you can create without needing to code. They use ChatGPT to do specific tasks. At the moment, these...
Promoting AI Literacy: A Comprehensive Log of My 2023 AI Education Activities
At the beginning of 2023 I became very curious about generative AI. So I began learning everything I could and sharing what I'm learning in many different ways. Here’s a summary of my activities for the year 2023. See the end of this post for my thoughts about it all....
Understanding and Using Generative AI in Library Programs: a webinar series
A series of four webinars in 2024 Jan. 30 Feb. 6 Feb. 13 Feb. 20 2:30 pm Eastern | 1:30 pm Central | 12:30 pm Mountain | 11:30 am Pacific (You'll get the recordings if you are unable to attend live). Sign up now — ALA Store Price for the whole series: ALA member...
How I use generative AI in my work
I've heard a few people say that generative AI tools are fun for entertainment only, and not really useful for work. However, I DO find these tools useful. Very useful! I'm an eLearning developer for the University of Arizona Libraries and I work in the Instructional...
Evaluating generative AI tools for purchase: a checklist
At academic libraries, we're starting to get pitches from developers of various apps and software based on generative AI – pitches to purchase this software for our campus. Because of that, I realized that it can be challenging to evaluate these tools. Especially...
What’s next with ChatGPT?
I recently heard someone ask, "What's next with ChatGPT?" This was a person who doesn't have time to follow the news about generative AI on a regular basis. So for those who haven't had time to keep up, here are some interesting developments. I'm not aiming to predict...