[olug] Autodidacticism with ChatGPT, 10/4/2023

[Steve Litt]

Hi all,

What: Online presentation, Autodidacticism with ChatGPT
Who: Presented by Syeed Ali (http://syeedali.com)
When: Wednesday 10/4/2023 at 18:00 UTC-4 (7PM Eastern Daylight time)
Where: Jitsi online presentation, https://meet.jit.si/golug [1]

Autodidacticism with ChatGPT

ChatGPT is a free AI text tool.  You will learn to leverage it to
better understand and solve problems.

- Mindset and techniques
- Programming/scripting
- Creativity and brainstorming
- Autodidacticism and general learning
- Philosophies and limitations

Syeed has used ChatGPT in various ways such as:

Learning:

- Making a yard low-maintenance
- How to befriend a crow
- Music recommendations

Creative writing:

- World building
- Character creation and evolution throughout a story
- Dialog from multiple perspectives
- Pivot ChatGPT to become any of:  Itself, a publisher, an editor, a
  writer, or a character

Programming and computers, with no relevant experience:

- Converting a user's emails into a mailman mailing list (some Python)
- Modifying WordPress using PHP snippets
- Global search-replace in a MySQL database

The presentation will be a usage deep dive ending with a live
demonstration using an audience suggestion.

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Online via Jitsi:
https://meet.jit.si/golug

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