Post 3: Prompting LLMs (due April 3 by midnight)

What is the most helpful prompting tip you’ve learned, either in this class or elsewhere? In your post, for full credit please be sure to include all of these elements. After all the posts are up, also remember to post two comments on classmates’ posts!

Your own, original voice – no AI blandness, please! Make specific connections to your own experience, discussions we’ve had in class, etc. to bring your post to life for your readers.
The LLM prompt you used — wording, tone, sequence etc. are all important.
Its use cases or applications —in what circumstances, and for what kinds of users, would this prompt be helpful?
The LLM you tested this prompt on, and an example of the output you received (screenshot or cut and paste).
Support and citation—include at least one connection to our course readings (and a correct citation to that reading) to help classmates connect your post to what we’ve read and covered so far in class. 

Post 2: AI Research (due March 14 by midnight)

Write a 300-word blog post about the most surprising, strange, or game-changing thing you learned during today’s research lab. This could be:
  • New information you discovered during your own group’s research.
  • An argument or fact from another group’s shareouts that changed your perspective on AI.
  • A prediction about where AI is headed (for better or worse).
  • Generally, something you learned about AI that you want to remember in the days and weeks ahead!
Your post should:
📝 Hook your reader—why should they care?
📢 Use your own voice—this isn’t a formal essay, so have fun with it! Don’t have AI generate this post, since the point is to use your own perspective and experiment with your own writing style.
🎨 Include support—add your sources so that your readers know that you are not just randomly making this up 🙂
🎨 If you like, include media—if appropriate and relevant, add memes, images, TikToks, videos—whatever might add a new dimension to your post.

Need inspiration? Try answering one of these questions:
  1. What’s the biggest AI myth people believe (that isn’t true)?
  2. What’s an AI issue no one’s talking about (but should be)?
  3. If you could change one thing about AI’s future, what would it be?
  4. What would AI look like if you all – current college studentswere in charge of its design?
 

Welcome

We are really excited to explore generative AI with you this semester. On this site, you’ll post your ideas, reactions, and assignments, so that we can all learn from each others’ experiments with AI. Looking forward to seeing what you all come up with!

Image of two figures gazing at a giant Barbie wearing a pink hat in the shape of an atomic cloud.

Pieke Roelofs, “Barbiehiemer” (AI-created art, 2023)
https://tinyurl.com/2hjazzsh