Presenter: Dr. Richard Medina, CLT, Assistant Faculty Specialist in Human-Computer Interaction

Large Language Models (LLMs) provide an enormous resource of language material that can be accessed (or “prompted”) in a variety of ways. In this workshop Richard will demonstrate techniques for using Python scripts to interact with LLMs to retrieve many types of language content. Techniques to be covered include constructing and submitting prompts through a Python script and handling responses from the language model. Examples of using Python to generate example language material will be presented in detail.

Familiarity with writing Python scripts would be useful but not necessary to benefit from the workshop. Some familiarity with using Large Language Models (e.g., ChatGPT, Bard, etc.) for personal, scholarly, or in teaching would be useful for purposes of context but is not necessary. This session is a special topic in the Programming Essentials for Studies in Human Language & Technology series.

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