A Hands-On introduction to Large Language Models like Microsoft Copilot Chat and ChatGPT

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.
Remember: a LLM is "Always confident and usually correct."
Santa Clara, California, United States