Tech Tuesdays Guest Presentation: Beyond Prompting - There is more to AI than ChatGPT

Larry Dribin will be guest presenting at Tech Tuesdays:

Beyond Prompting - There is more to AI than ChatGPT

On November 30, 2022, OpenAI, a small Artificial Intelligence company publicly released a new application, ChatGPT. Two months later, ChatGPT had over 100 million users making it the fastest growing application. ChatGPT is a new type of application called a Large Language Model (LLM) that uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) to provide human like solutions to a wide variety of problems. Today, numerous companies provide similar LLMs.

AI and LLMs can be excellent tools to help you, and your students during the learning journey. However, these tools can also provide incorrect information, fake references and hallucinations that sound quite believable. Thousands of companies are providing a wide range of AI and LLM solutions and have generated tremendous hype about what these models can do, with little concern about what they can’t do or the harm they can cause.

In today’s Tech Tuesday talk, Dr. Larry Dribin will take us on a journey to explore AI and specifically LLMs, provide an overview of how they work, and discuss some of the interesting solutions that AI researchers are creating beyond prompting.

AI is much more than LLMs and knowing a little about how AI works should enable you, as educators, to provide your students with a better understanding of the capabilities and limitations of Artificial Intelligence and Large Language Models. This knowledge should also enable you, as researchers, to open new areas of research to explore and improve the human condition.

Bio:

Dr. Larry Dribin has been an adjunct instructor in DePaul’s College of Computers & Digital Media (CDM) since 1981. He has taught courses in Data Analysis, Software Engineering and Measurement, Agile and Object-Oriented Development, Software Processes and Cloud Computing. This past year, he has been researching Large Language Models, how they work and how we might regulate them. Spring Quarter, 2024, he co-taught with Marco Chou, DePaul’s first course on Generative AI, IT390 Introduction to Generative Artificial Intelligence.

While teaching part-time, Larry also worked full time. He has had a diversified career in consulting, management, sales, and software development. He has worked in a variety of industries for large Fortune 500 companies and small startups. Larry has assisted clients implement new technologies, turn around failing projects and helped them comply with a variety of regulations. Larry was a Director in Cap Gemini Ernst & Young’s IT Excellence Practice (ITX) before starting his own consulting company, the Pearl Street Group.

Larry holds a Ph.D. in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from Illinois Tech (IIT – Illinois Institute of Technology), an MBA in Marketing from Loyola University, and a BS in Industrial Engineering from Illinois Tech.

• Date: Tuesday September 24
• Time: 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
• Location: TBA (Loop) and Zoom (Flex Event)