Artificial Intelligence SIG

Learning

Custom GPT Instruction *

Custom GPT Examples *

[The Best GPTs of ChatGPT](https://chatgpt.com/gpts
Census questions from 1790 - 1950 U.S. Census by BG

Cyndi's List

Artificial Intelligence

Facebook Groups

Large Language Models

Leaders in AI for Genealogy

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

Bloggers

Newsletters

Chatbot Arena - Compare & Test the Best AI Chatbots - Leaderboard
Future Tools - Collects & Organizes All The Best AI Tools
Last Week In AI - Weekly Summary of AI News That Matters
The Neuron - Trends, tools, how tos and a weekly newsletter
TL;DR AI Stands for "Too Long Didn't Read" Very Techie Free AI Newsletter

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.
The Artificial Intelligence Show - Weekly Podcast

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

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

Webinars

This is a list of recent AI webinars, some free, some with a fee (FamilyTree Webinars - $49/yr)

Next Meeting

4th Monday in January

January 27, 2024, 7pm on Zoom - SIG Members receive email invites.
Members should Email the SIG Leader to join SIG announcement list

Agenda

Questions about the Nov 25, 2024 topic, NotebookLM
Tips
Using ChatBots to analyze and report on your genealogy database
- What/how to upload your database
- Run queries
- Create reports and papers
- How to verify accuracy

Handouts

2025 Topics

Generating Timelines
Composing narratives from events and facts
Full Text Searching advances of FamilySearch
Adding historical event narratives
Cheat Sheets
Creating better prompts

Future Topics

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

Meeting Invite

Contact Bill George, SIG Leader, for a Zoom link to the next meeting. The meeting is open to all. San Ramon Valley Genealogical Society members of the group get automatic invite emails.

Using

Using AI for Genealogy

Handwritten text recognition
Translation between languages
Summarizing information
Transcribing text from audio
Source Recommendations
Reforming data into tables
Interpreting text and objects from images
Generating images from spoken or typed words
Create timelines
Coding Assistance, Custom scripts to do custom retrieval or analysis
Help formulating text

Chatbots & Owners

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

AI Image Generation

Dall-E - OpenAI
Flux - Flux
Imagen - Google Research
Midjourney - Midjourney
Stable Diffusion - Stable Diffusion
Meta - Meta
X - Need X (Twitter) account + $ - Musk

AI SIG