The page collects videos, handouts, and resources for the “Year of AI” project at the Innovation Showcase that took place at the 2024 Innovation Day at DePaul University (January 26th, 2024).

Over the past year, I've dedicated myself to exploring and integrating Generative AI into all aspects of work. Each month, I've delved into a new dimension of AI, weaving its potential into both my daily professional activities and teaching methodologies.

This showcase is an experiential journey into the accessible and practical applications of AI in academia. We can demystify AI for our faculty and staff, illustrating how this cutting-edge technology can be seamlessly and economically incorporated into their work. It's about enhancing our human capabilities, fostering a more innovative, efficient, and engaging learning environment. AI can not only augment our teaching and learning experiences but also guide us on the path to becoming better educators, learners, and humans.

(Apologies for the purple prose – the rest of this page will be considerably more prosaic).

I have a curated list of AI tools and resources. The tools that I highly recommend and use most frequently are:

• ChatGPT Plus: The subscription plan provides access to GPT4, GPTs, and DALL·E 3.
• DiffusionBee: One-click installer for Stable Diffusion on Apple Silicon Macs. Runs great on my MacBook Air. Free.
• GPT4All: Local Large Language Models on regular computers. Best way at DePaul to demonstrate local LLMs to students for free. Windows and macOS versions work almost identically.
• MacWhisper: One-click installer for Whisper on Apple Silicon Macs. Freemium.
• Microsoft Copilot and Edge Browser: Best way at DePaul to demonstrate GPT4 and DALL·E to students for free.
• Ollama: Local Large Language Models on regular computers. Requires use of the Terminal. Impressive. Free.
• Perplexity: AI-assisted search engine. Impressive design and capabilities. Freemium.
• Poe: Easiest way to test various Large Language Models. Freemium, but free 7-day trial.

To give the showcase a bit of a narrative arc, I have worked my way through the Alphabet. The attached ebook contains a narrative that accompanies the video above.

• A: Audio
• B: Bard
• C: Copilot
• D: Digital Humans
• E: Ethics
• F: Foundation Models
• G: Generative Images
• H: HeyGen
• I: Ideation
• J: Jupyter Notebooks
• K: Knowledge Engineering
• L: Local LLM
• M: MOOCs
• N: NLP and Prompt Engineering
• O: Oobabooga
• P: Perplexity
• Q: Quizzes
• R: RAG
• S: Summaries
• T: Training
• U: UX
• V: Video
• W: Writing
• X: XAI (Explainable AI)
• Y: YouAI
• Z: Zapier and IFTTT