AI In Plain English, For Normal People. PART 5.a

Bon dia, folks!

We continue with the best guide to understand AI and don't get behind in the future!

Last week, we talked about the second stage, or the fine-tuning of the base model. In this one, we will go through:

• A little introduction and How to access ChatGPT: website and phone app (Link to video)

• Ultra-quick Introduction to prompt engineering

• My Ultimate FASTEST Prompting Guide to open you up to the possibilities of this tools

So you can start experimenting and playing with it. That would be the first step!

And as always, at the bottom, you have a selection of the news of the week to stay updated and spark your curiosity, as well as cool tools and lessons that can enhance your life.

That’s damn right!

The time has come! Now is the time to have fun with this chatbot.

Is this a new creation?

A scientist created the first chatbot at MIT in 1964 named ELIZA, designed to simulate a conversation with a human being. This one would have been the grand, grand mother of our famous chatbot.

As a quick reminder, a chatbot is a special case of Large Language Model (LLM), which is a special case of Generative AI, which is a special case of using AI.

The model interacts with you as an assistant for general purposes. It is trying to predict the next word in a sequence of words; the predicted word is added to the sentence, and word by word, sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph, it creates a response.

ChatGPT is only one of the LLMs that we can find on the market. There are many others, and each one has different behaviours and capacities.

These capabilities introduce a concept that I want to make clear: Multimodal AI.

Remember this word because we are going to hear it everywhere. What does it mean?

The AI system not only works like text in, text out; it has the capacity to process more than one type of medium input; it will be able to understand text, audio, images, or video and work with that to give you a response.

With that in mind, click on this video to have your first contact with ChatGPT, both on the website and directly on your phone.

To make the most of it, I will introduce another word that you may have heard somewhere. Prompt engineering.

What is prompt engineering?

You talk to the chatbot (your assistant) using prompts, or instructions and directions.

The quality of the output is going to be determined by the quality of the input prompt.

There is an art to communicating with a generative large language model, so the chatbot can best understand you so you can get the best results.

Let’s use the RICCE framework to quickly understand the idea.

The acronym represents:

• Role

• Instructions

• Context

• Constraints

• Examples

For example, we will ask the chatbot to pretend to be an experimented computer scientist teacher (a role so it can act with the specific knowledge of that ‘persona’), to do an explanation of what AI is in the form of an article (clear instructions of what we want from it) for an 8-year-old kid (context), in two paragraphs maximum length (constraints), and we will give it a concrete example of what we are looking for.

This is not the only framework you can use, but it will be a good start and easy to remember if you like Asian food.

And here is my Ultimate Prompting Guide, a quick list of options you can think about so you can have a broader idea of what to ask this chatbot and obtain a more concrete response.

• Specify the desired tone (e.g., formal, casual, informative, or persuasive).

• Define the format or structure (e.g., essay, bullet points, outline, dialogue).

• Indicate a role or perspective to adopt (e.g., expert, critic, enthusiast, novice).

• State the goal or purpose of the response (e.g., inform, persuade, entertain, or educate).

• Provide background information, data, or context for accurate content creation.

• Define the scope or range of the topic.

• List important keywords or phrases to be included.

• Specify constraints, such as word or character count.

• Provide examples of the desired style, structure, or content.

• Mention deadlines or time frames for time-sensitive responses.

• Specify the target audience for tailored content.

• Indicate the language for the response, if different from the provided one.

This should be a good place to start and have fun with it, but it is only the surface of the iceberg!

If you want to know the basics of prompt engineering and discover why it is going to be important to survive in the new AI and robot automation era, be prepared for next week's letter!

Thanks for your time.

My News Picks

• The knowledge economy is over. Welcome to the allocation economy and model managers. Shift from being a creator to a manager.

• Deep-fake Biden robocalls impersonate the president and call voters to discourage them.

• Google Chrome is getting 3 new AI features aiming to refine the user interface.

• Barcelona is creating a digital twin of itself using AI. ;)

• Kin.art launches a free tool for artists who want to protect their creations from AI misuse. 

• Prophetic ai is set to revolutionise the world of lucid dreaming with Morpheus-1

• Jump to the 1-hour time stamp “Health opportunities you can’t miss” or watch the whole video if you are interested!

• ElevenLabs continues growing! Translate your content into other languages with this tool and expand your reach.

Tools

• StoriAI allows you to create branded content, products, or brands in seconds with AI.

• Tabmate solves the “too many tabs opened” problem with the help of AI.

• Huru is an AI interview prep app. Interview coaching for all.

And that’s all. I hope these insights, news, and tools help you prepare for the future!

Have a really nice week.

Stay kind.

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