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Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI): GenAI Workshops - Past Recordings

This guide provides an introduction to Generative Artificial Intelligence, originally created in Fall 2023 and updated in Winter 2024 by Librarian Greg Bem. Content based on Fall 2023 and Winter 2024 workshops developed by Greg Bem.

Winter 2025 GenAI Workshops

Is the Internet Dead?!

Event description: Join this event to learn about the problems of automated content on the web. We’ll explore concepts like Dead Internet Theory, deep fakes, and “GenAI as Garbage.” You’ll be invited to think about the problems of quantity of generative content and how it impacts us as researchers and community members.

Intro to Generative Artificial Intelligence

Event description: Join this event to get the low-down on GenAI technology and how it's impacting our world! This interactive session is for people who are new to GenAI technology, or new to critically thinking about it!

Fall 2024 GenAI Workhops

Intro to Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI): Demonstrations and Conversations
GenAI and Ethics in Conversation and in Practice
GenAI Hands-on Spotlight: Claude
GenAI Hands-on Spotlight: Gemini
GenAI Hands-on Spotlight: Perplexity

Spring 2024 GenAI Workhops

 
 
Intro to Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI): Demonstrations and Conversations

Description: This session explores the basics of GenAI, including the technology, the functions, and ethical applications in higher education and the workplace. If you have never had any experience using a GenAI tool, or want to learn a little more, this is the session for you. This session is mostly lecture with some opportunity for GenAI practice.

Plugins and GPTs in ChatGPT: The GenAI Marketplace Examined

Description: This session explores the emerging marketplace of GenAI technologies. A specific focus will be on the plugins and “GPTs” (customizations) in ChatGPT Plus. A Plus account is not required to participate. This session will primarily be lecture- and demonstration-based.

Exploring, Managing, and Completing Creative Projects: A Hands-On Workshop

Description: This session explores how large-scale creative and artistic needs can be met with GenAI tools. Participants will be divided into groups to learn how to use GenAI tools to accomplish specific tasks in an artistic project. GenAI content in this session will include text and images. This session will be almost entirely hands-on / activity-based and will involve group work.

Ethical Uses for Productivity: Demonstrations and Applied Thinking

Description: This session explores how GenAI tools can be ethically and responsibly used to support your own workflows and optimize your time. During this session, you will learn a variety of practices across different GenAI tools that will support and optimize your schedule, your information management, and processes at school and at work. This session contains some lecture, and is mostly hands-on / activity-based.

Intro to Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI): Demonstrations and Conversations

Description: This session explores the basics of GenAI, including the technology, the functions, and ethical applications in higher education and the workplace. If you have never had any experience using a GenAI tool, or want to learn a little more, this is the session for you. This session is mostly lecture with some opportunity for GenAI practice.

Winter 2024 GenAI Workshops

Intro to GenAI
Ethics in Conversation and Practice
Impacts on the Visual World