Presentation
From Chats to App: Designing AI for People
DescriptionThis workshop addresses the human side of Generative AI (GenAI) and how GenAI applications can transform work. GenAI may be one of the most transformative technologies of the last decade, century, or even millennium. This workshop aims to explain the technology behind the hype. The aim is to help people use GenAI to enhance personal productivity and to understand the basic elements of GenAI. To understand the AI underlying these applications, we will examine the characteristics of generative large language models and their multi-modal and agent-based variants. Participants will learn about the current state of GenAI, the underlying principles of large language models, model fine-tuning, and effective prompt engineering techniques. Participants will learn the language that describes GenAI that is needed to communicate in multidisciplinary design teams.These characteristics of AI define a new design material, which introduces new ethical and human considerations. We will address these considerations when using AI for personal productivity and when creating human-centered AI applications. We will offer human-AI interaction design principles collected from recent GenAI papers and long-standing human-automation design principles. We will also explore the safety, ethical, and economic implications of GenAI for individuals, communities, and society.The workshop has eight discussion-based modules: 1) The hype and consequences of generative AI and large language models (LLMs), 3) human-centered GenAI systems, 4) prompt engineering, 5) LLMs in spreadsheets, 6) development AI applications in R, and 7) AI workflow and agent-based AI, 8) safety, ethics, and economics of AI. Hands-on activities with AI applications and coding will augment these discussions. Participants will learn new techniques such as Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), and then implement using R and LLM APIs. Workshop participants will create a conversational application using LLM APIs and RAG to interact with a set of documents of participants' choice. No prior knowledge or expertise is required, but some experience with R is helpful. Participants should bring a laptop with R and RStudio installed. Instructors will assist with setup. This workshop welcomes all interested individuals to learn, discuss, and develop GenAI applications to build their experience with this transformative technology.
Presenters
Research Assistant
Event Type
Industry/Practitioner Content
Workshop
TimeMonday, October 13th8:30am - 5pm CDT
LocationGrand Hall M/N