Prompt Engineering: Getting Started with GenAI in an Efficient and Science-Based Way
Anyone who wants to harness the full potential of generative AI must learn to write good prompts. What are efficient and science-based ways to instruct AI tools such as ChatGPT or Copilot?
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Anyone who wants to harness the full potential of generative AI must learn to write good prompts. What are efficient and science-based ways to instruct AI tools such as ChatGPT or Copilot?
In this hands-on workshop, you’ll discover key prompting strategies to get started with AI tools for text and image generation. You will not only be introduced to basic techniques such as few-shot prompting, but also to more advanced methods such as chain-of-thought and chain-of-verification prompting, always based on the latest scientific insights. Moreover, you will work with GenAI tools yourself, to master the relevant techniques. This will give you hands-on experience on how these tools can learn new tasks, how to improve their reasoning abilities and reduce their tendency to hallucinate.
(This session had a different title before: "The Science of Prompt Engineering". The contents of the session remain unchanged!)
Teacher / speaker
Yves Peirsman
Yves Peirsman has been active in language technology for over twenty years. He obtained an MSc in Natural Language Processing from the University of Edinburgh, a PhD in Computational Linguistics from KU Leuven, and was a post-doctoral researcher in the NLP Group at Stanford University. Most recently he has been working as an NLP consultant at NLP Town and as a co-founder and CTO at Deontic. Yves also organizes the Belgium NLP Meetups, a series of informal events for NLP enthusiasts in Belgium, and likes to give workshops on AI for creative and business writing. In his free time, Yves also writes fiction, which makes him particularly interested in the impact of generative AI on literature.
Expertise:
- Language technology and Natural Language Processing (NLP)
- Generative AI for language professionals
Learning Trajectory on Generative AI for Professionals in Higher Education
This is a suggestion for a learning trajectory on generative AI, targeted at professionals working in higher education (e.g., researchers, lecturers, administrative and technical staff, policymakers). The learning modules were carefully selected by VAIA to create a holistic and realistic starting point for educating this target group on GenAI. This trajectory gets updated regularly!
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