Artificial Intelligence SIG

Custom GPT Instruction *

• How To Create Custom GPTs - Build your own ChatGPT
• Build GPTs the Right way - 20 Custom Instructions Included
• A Crash Course on Chat GPT for Beginners
• How I coded an Entire Website Using ChatGPT

Custom GPT Examples *

• The Best GPTs of ChatGPT
• Census questions from 1790 - 1950 U.S. Census by BG

Cyndi's List

• Artificial Intelligence

Facebook Groups

• Genealogy and Artificial Intelligence - Blaine Bettinger
• Search FB for "Artificial Intelligence"

Large Language Models

• Zapier - Aug 2024 Article
• Google Search for current list of Large Language Models

Leaders in AI for Genealogy

• Blaine Bettinger - The Genetic Genealogist
• Dana Leeds - Using Artificial Intelligence in Genealogy
• Steve Little - AI Genealogy Insights
• Thomas MacEntee - Genealogy Bargains
• James Tanner - Genealogy's Star Blog
• Mark Thompson - Making Family History

Legacy Family Tree Webinars

• https://familytreewebinars.com/.
  Several Short, Excellent Videos by Thomas MacEntee (requires subscription).
  • Using AI for Social History
  • Using AI to Summarize Genealogy Records
  • Using AI to Get Genealogy Research Help
  • Using AI to Translate Genealogy Records
  • Using AI to Transcrbe Genealogy Records

Newsletters

• TL;DR Ai - "To Long Didn't Read" Free Tech Newsletter about AIi

Podcasts

• The Family History AI Show - Steve Little & Mark Thompson (hosted on multiple sites)
  • Podcast episode list at Genealogy Insights
  • Apple Podcasts - Apple hosts this podcast and many others.
  • Blubrry.com - Podcast episodes, easily accessed
  • Search for The Family History AI Show podcast
• Research Like a Pro. Diana Elder and Nicole Dyer
  • From episodes 310 on, there is much emphasis on AI
  • There are over 320 podcast episodes on all aspects of Genealogy
• Genealogy Gems Lisa Louise Cooke
  • Episode 278 "AI Update and Should you use ChatGPT & Bard" July 14, 2023. At 25:30 Lisa tells story where AI lied to her and when asked about it, apologized.

Prompt Aids - Cheat Sheets

• Submit to AI Prompt: "What are some of the best AI prompt engineering cheat sheets used for genealogy on the internet"
• The Neuron - a ChatGPT Cheat Sheet
• Reddit Complete Cheat Sheet
• Google Search AI Cheat Sheets for Genealogy

Prompts, How to Write

• Episode 8 of The Family History AI Show @13:55 min
• Learn Prompting
• Style Modifiers
• Writing Prompts for AI by GoDaddy.com

Note: * Creating ChatGPT Custom GPTs require a paid ChatGPT account. Using them by visiting the URL is allowed, using the free version of ChatGPT

4th Monday in October

Oct. 28, 2024, 7pm on Zoom

Agenda

• Custom GPTs, cont.
• Top Rated AI Apps
• Prompts receiving Graphic Files
• Prompts creating Graphic Files (pictures)
• Uses for Genealogy
• Q/A

Handouts

• September, 2024 - Chatbots

Rest of the year

• November, 2024 - Creating custom output

Future Topics

• Hallucination in AI responses.
• Using Generative AI in various platforms
• Custom GPTs
• AI in Applications on your mobile phones, tablets, and computers

Actions

• Creating/saving prompts
• Create timelines
• Transcribe text from interviews with family
• Summarize text
• Make tables from data
• Edit writing
• Research recommendations
• Create images
• Create text from images - e.g. Transkribus
• Imitate voices

Chatbots & Owners

• ChatGpt - OpenAI
• Claude - Anthropic
• CoPilot - Microsoft
• Gemini - Google
• Perplexity - Perplexity
• Meta - Facebook
• X - Need X (Twitter) account + $ - Musk

Markdown Editors

Prompt responses can be copy/pasted to your clipboard. In addition, AI prompt responses are many times formatted in Markdown Format. That is, when there is a link to the chatbot prompt response (usually by clicking a COPY Icon which sends the prompt response to your clipboard), it is in Markdown format. There are many free Markdown editors available:

• PC - Windows - Typora
• PC - Windows - Markdown Pad
• Mac - macOS - App store, "Markdown Editor"