Slides: Day1, Day2 (all links work in the PDF slides, especially the YouTube videos.)
AI Tools: OpenAI ChatGPT (biggest, Microsoft), Claude AI (Amazon), Gemini (Google), AI Studio (Google), NotebookLM (Google), Mistral (EU), perplexity (Controversial).
Here’s the website where you can use just the OpenAI API as if it was ChatGPT (this is less and less useful unfortunately). https://niek.github.io/chatgpt-web/
AI Image Generator I used: recraft.ai (50 images free per day with free account)
Old AI Image Generator I used: DreamStudio.ai (Lots of free credits. I added $10 and been using it for a year and a half and only spent half of it.)
Good newsletters: Superpower Daily, Rundown AI.
Youtube Channels I Watch: Matthew Berman, Wes Roth
Videos on AI in music: Short, Long
Fake Johnny Cash playlist. And the Taylor Swift cover.
Lit review tools: scite_, storm (Stanford, free), elicit, consensus, research rabit. (REMEMBER: Look for coupons. If you can’t find, wait for one.)
R Script to use the API. And here’s the other example script promised. Finally, the article explaining how to safely set up the API key in R.
Fun things to listen to: here, here and here
Not so fun things to listen to: here, here and here.
Probably should listen to some Sam Altman. Search on YouTube.
Most Important AI Writing IMHO. (This will be hard to take it. Explore everything else first.)
More outstanding learning tools: here and here.
Amazing articles by BYU Professor and MethodsNET instructor Ethan Busby and colleagues here and here.
Articles from the week:
Financial Times: Generative AI exists because of the transformer
NYTimes Opinion: Noam Chomsky: The False Promise of ChatGPT
Guardian: What is going on with ChatGPT
NYTimes: A.I. Poses ‘Risk of Extinction,’ Industry Leaders Warn
Medium: How I Won Singapore’s GPT-4 Prompt Engineering Competition
NYTimes: We Teach A.I. Systems Everything, Including Our Biases
Guardian: Google chief admits ‘biased’ AI tool’s photo diversity offended users
Not Ready For This. (What Is Reality) Pixel 9 Phone Review. Best product Review Ever Written. It’s Social Science and Philosophy hidden in a Product Review. Must Read.
