Mastering AI Tools

This is AI in its purest form. My role is to show you how to do anything imaginable from the most basic to the fringes of human understanding in a subject. Regardless of who you are, we will do and see things during class beyond even my imagination as I try out of the box requests every 10 minutes. If you had a “wow moment watching the promotional video, wait till you see what we do in class. You have only to master the context in which you apply these tools, to be forever, infinitely empowered. A great deal of our experience and expertise no longer matters in an AI powered world and we must adapt as quickly as possible. As you master these tools, breathtaking possibilities and creations will unfold before you in ways you cannot yet imagine. I have designed it with utmost care, and my role is now to guide you on this transformative journey. “Change your stars, William”
 

INTRODUCTION TO AI TOOLS

• The meaning and impact of AI on and in our lives.
• Overview of the AI landscape.
• Basic concepts and terminologies
  • Understanding machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing in the context of software development.
  • Reducing all pertinent terminology to a single picture.
• History and evolution of AI in tools.
• Where this course fits in and what it means to be a Chatbot.
• Introduction to virtual assistants.
• Introduction to conversational agents and Chatbots.
• Ethics and responsible use of AI
  • Tool guidelines and policies
  • Avoiding Jailbreaking, prompt injection, or other activities that violate a tools’ guidelines.
  • Bug reporting and bug bounties.
  • What is in the underlying model that we cannot see. What is hidden, and why.
• What are learning models and how are they trained.
• Context Is Everything.
  • Getting exactly what you want in the way you want it.
  • AI hallucinations and demeanor.
• Introduction to OpenAI’s AI for GPT 4
  • Capabilities discussion
  • Using the API is a separate course specific for developers.
• Introducing Microsoft Copilot (Formerly Bing Chat with GPT 4)
• Introducing Google Bard.
• Pertinent news and product change lists
• Community

USING CHAT GPT (DEEP DIVE)

• Background, versions, availability, stability, and pricing.
• Architecture and learning process.
• Getting around Chat GPT.
• Providing model feedback.
• Limitations
  • 4096 token barrier, understanding tokens enough to balance “request bandwidth.”
  • Understand and Correcting “Refusal to Comply Issues.”
  • Understanding Time and Usage Limits and what to do to avoid them.
  • Social and Ethical Guidelines and the benefits of Instructor and Educator Personas.
  • Limitations and Overcoming Issues with Creative Outputs.
  • Complex Problem Solving.
  • Removing what I call the “Brutality Filter” to maximize honesty in all things even if it hurts.
• Comparative analysis of ChatGPT with other AI models.
• ChatGPT's unique contributions and disruptions in the AI field.
• Open AI API Usage (minimal coverage but will empower).
• Templatizing prompts for tasks.
• Customizing for Optimal Results.
  • Context refinement using Custom Instructions.
  • Advanced refinement with Custom Personas.
  • Switching contexts and personas for different roles.
• Output type, content, brevity, clarity, honesty, and format control.
• Creating, using and sharing custom GPTs.
• Labs
  • Setting up context for success, including creating a Token Spy feature for ChatGPT output.
  • Instructor/Class/Team led where we pick a project and explore building it on the fly with AI to guide us.
  • Creating a Cross Network Channel and TV Show Recommender that will blow your mind.
  • Statistician Role/ Software Developer Project Manager: Create an Analytical Hierarchy Calculator with no code or understanding of eigen vectors. Use this to build an Excel tool to determine the highest risk, software features and remove them from the original software release with a detailed explanation of why.
  • Creating a Web Page From any output, refining it with English sentences while it writes and refines the code and does all the reformatting with prompts.
  • Creating an “assistant persona” to guide research or project development.
  • Custom Labs based on your background and industry. Ask for anything you like before, during or after class.

USING GOOGLE BARD

• Background, versions, availability, stability, and pricing
• Getting around Google Bard
• Using Bard for content creation
• Using Bard for scientific research
• Using Bard for its integrated AI tools like maps, scholar, and lens
• Customizing prompts for optimal results
• Limitations
• Labs
  • Attempt to create a pirate tracking ability using Google Maps and what it provides.
  • Experimenting with Google AI tools like Google Lens, Google Maps and Google Scholar. We can use them all pending interest.
  • Creating a research paper with citations.
  • Custom labs, tailored to the participant based on their profile.
  • Using Image analysis and identity analysis to then move the output to ChatGPT to create a “What’s That Tree” web page with no programming experience or need to write code. (The app can be extended by experienced developers).

USING COPILOT FORMERLY KNOWN AS BING CHAT WITH GPT 4

• Background, versions, availability, stability and pricing.
• **Discussion of current limitations and a check-in for level of inclusion in the course is required every week.
• Limitations
  • Beta and always improving. We will see first-hand if it is “ready yet?”
• Customizing for optimal results compared to the latest version of Chat GPT
• Voice-to-Prompt can be Used Hands Free
  • The potential when listening intelligently, hands free.
• Labs
  • Using Voice Assist to Make Requests for directions.
  • Using Voice Assist to create complex images, diagrams and descriptions of tactical solutions to solve an existing problem in the world.
  • Using Voice Assist to brainstorm ideas and then organize, reformat, translate to another language, and read back.
  • Heavy cross usage of AI tools to use them all to create solutions and stories to include heavy Microsoft Office integration where appropriate.
  • Custom labs based on your profile settings.
  • NOTE: Their tool has been incredibly unpredictable as late as 1/26 so coverage will reflect whatever its current state is.

AI FOR CONTENT CREATORS

• AI in content creation.
• Mastering written content from research to poems to rewriting ranting inappropriate emails.
• Creating, analyzing, and incorporating stunning images for anything you can imagine.
• Using AI to track trends and suggest content.
• Using AI to blend content and provide detailed instructions for anything from animation to the perfect blog post.
• Using AI to teach you how to be even better at content creation.
• Incorporating content into Microsoft Office, and other AI-capable tools.
• Using AI to create roadmaps for optimizing social media posts, accounts, saturation, and traffic. (I am not an expert in this…yet)
• Master control of the mood and theme to create explicit, stunning images using DALL-E using various tools.
• Animating DALL-E images using PowerPoint (Can easily teach a 5 day on just this topic, so ask!)
• Multilingual content creation and translation
• Labs
  • Class contribution to a group project, followed by comparison of student results and how their contexts affected their results.
  • Creating multilingual poems and designing animated images.
  • Using AI to create roadmaps for optimizing social media accounts and traffic.
  • Using image analysis to provide detailed analysis of famous misunderstood images, images from your past, images from your present, to see what they reveal.
  • Open experimentation with a multitude of predefined prompts that AI generated, the moment you signed up for the class.

DATA OUTPUT FORMATS AND TRANSLATIONS

• How AI is far more than just having Your own world class data warehouse and a report writer.
• Explain How AI can sit on top of both the OpenAI model AND your data using a custom API you build into you own UI. Using the OpenAI API in any detail is a dedicated as an advanced course.
• Using ChatGPT output in Excel data models.
• Managing organization and complexity of any set of data.
• Labs:
• Exploring data display options, data format options, data export options, file format options, and exporting data to data models of nearly any kind.
• Exporting a data model to Excel for use in a table and transforming that data into a dataset and querying that data intelligently.
• Understand Excel data models and data cleaning.
• Using Excel AI Add-Ins to assist data modelling.
• Implementing an AHP Calculator for Decision Making and How to Use that to Avoid Costly endeavor by cross referencing risk factors.

INDUSTRY SPECIFIC LABS (AI GENERATED, INSTRUCTOR EXTENDED)

• Sales and Marketing Role: perform market analysis to help you find the right space and pricing for anything.
• Analyzing brands and building a strategic marketing plan.
• Sales and Marketing Role: Generate custom emails, tailored to customers, with custom taglines and other content based on your unique data fields for the ultimate “Do it One Time” mail merge.
• DOD Developer Role –enforcing and understanding STIGs with AI
• Visual Studio Developer Role- Setting up an AI-enhanced IDE and exploring its features.
• This is Infinite. Just Ask before or during. The likelihood that I will tell you anything is outside the scope of an AI class is near zero. That is the nature of what AI allows and it should be no other way.

ADVANCED AI FEATURES AND APPLICATIONS

• Exploring Lesser-Known Capabilities and Tools including a “Student Share” for favorite AI Tools
• AI in Various Domains - Challenge my ability to wield AI.
• Review and compare your custom AI creations based on your profiles.
• For Teams, a final project can be implemented, based on empowering your team to support all roles on the project. This will require a separate pre-class discussion for context.
• Labs on emerging or experimental features to include any new and released features.

(OPTIONAL) AI TOOLS FOR SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS

• Overview of AI in software engineering.
  • History and evolution of AI in software development.
  • Current landscape and future trends.
• Integration of AI in development environments.
  • For instance, if you use Visual Studio then we integrate the appropriate tools into that. VS is my IDE of choice.
• Empowering a Code Assistant, Code Mentor and QA Personas.
• Development Learning and Training Using AI.
• Creating SQL Queries to create and populate tables with just a sentence.
• Querying data from a list on screen using a prompt.
• Using Internal details of ChatGPT as global variables integrated into code and prompts.
• Automated code development
  • Breaking down code generation tasks.
• Using AI for code generation and review.
  • Controlling preferences including what languages to produce code in (choosing from hundreds), how you would like it formatted and what output document type you would like to save it in.
• Leveraging AI for software testing and debugging
• Perform code analysis with AI tools.
• Conduct peer review with AI tools.
• Creating instant test plans tailored to your QA Department’s guidelines.
• Labs
  • Creating a Code Assistant / QA Chatbot
  • Performing automatic code reviews with deep, immediate. Insightful code analysis, review and instant correction to best practice.
  • Controlling the granularity of details code explanations.
  • Gain Deep Analysis of Industry Insite prior to embarking on new ventures, endeavors, talent, technology… A CTOs dream.
  • Build detailed checklists, tips, pitfalls and troubleshooting guides to assist any tool or technology migration before it starts.
  • Obtaining detailed, critical code analysis.
  • Requesting code improvement suggestions.
  • QA / Tester Role: AI-Assisted coding and automating software tests.
  • QA/ Tester Role: Using AI Across the Board.
  • QA Manager Role: Understanding How AI can help my team.
  • QA Manager Role: Understanding What AI Tools are best for my environment and projects.

ADVANCING FORWARD IN OUR ENDEAVORS

• Extensions, Addons and More
  • Using custom extensions and Addons in ChatGPT, Bing and Bard
  • Incorporating Conversational AI into our Discord channel.
• Access to AI Tools and Resources.
• Community forums for discussion and collaboration.
• Regular updates on AI Tool advancements and Other AI News.
• Analysis AI Landscape Future and our collective feelings discussed.
• Conclusions
• Evaluations