Vanderbilt University: Vanderbilt launches free online ChatGPT course, shaping the future of AI education

Vanderbilt University: Vanderbilt launches free online ChatGPT course, shaping the future of AI education. “Jules White, associate dean for strategic learning programs and associate professor of computer science at Vanderbilt University, is making ChatGPT more accessible and useful for the broader public with the launch of his free online Prompt Engineering for ChatGPT course on the Coursera platform.”

TNW: OpenAI is offering a free class in prompt engineering for devs

TNW: OpenAI is offering a free class in prompt engineering for devs. “As with all skills, prompt engineering takes practice. And, seeing how quickly this technology has come into mainstream use, experts are few and far between. But one AI company is offering free training right now. A short course in prompt engineering has been developed in partnership with OpenAI and is available via the DeepLearning.AI website.”

MakeUseOf: What Is OpenAI’s Shap-E, and What Can It Do?

MakeUseOf: What Is OpenAI’s Shap-E, and What Can It Do?. “In May 2023, Alex Nichol and Heewon Jun, OpenAI researchers and contributors, released a paper announcing Shap-E, the company’s latest innovation. Shap-E is a new tool trained on a massive dataset of paired 3D images and text that can generate 3D models from text or images. It is similar to DALL-E, which can create 2D images from text, but Shap-E produces 3D assets.”

WIRED: 11 Smart Prompts to Do More With Google Bard

WIRED: 11 Smart Prompts to Do More With Google Bard. “The suggestions below should get you off to a great start with Bard. Remember that you can edit your prompt using the pencil icon that appears next to it (and Bard will adjust its output accordingly). You can also see variations on Bard’s answers by clicking on the ‘View other drafts’ drop-down menu.”

Tech’s hottest new job: AI whisperer. No coding required. (Washington Post)

Washington Post: Tech’s hottest new job: AI whisperer. No coding required.. “[Riley] Goodside, a 36-year-old employee of the San Francisco start-up Scale AI, works in one of the AI field’s newest and strangest jobs: prompt engineer. His role involves creating and refining the text prompts people type into the AI in hopes of coaxing from it the optimal result. Unlike traditional coders, prompt engineers program in prose, sending commands written in plain text to the AI systems, which then do the actual work.”

Motherboard: ChatGPT Can Be Broken by Entering These Strange Words, And Nobody Is Sure Why

Motherboard: ChatGPT Can Be Broken by Entering These Strange Words, And Nobody Is Sure Why. “Two researchers have discovered a cluster of strange keywords that will break ChatGPT, OpenAI’s convincing machine-learning chatbot, and nobody’s quite sure why. These keywords—or ‘tokens,’ which serve as ChatGPT’s base vocabulary—include Reddit usernames and at least one participant of a Twitch-based Pokémon game.”

Analytics India: Google Releases a New Text-Based Image Editing Model Called ‘Imagic’

Analytics India: Google Releases a New Text-Based Image Editing Model Called ‘Imagic’. “Google researchers recently came up with a new text-based image editing method called ‘Imagic’. Imagic uses an input image and a text prompt—describing the edit—to then produce an edited image as its output. This new method, they claim, is unlike any of their previous methods for it doesn’t require any additional inputs.”