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“Build Your Own GPT” Webinar

Our 2-hour "Build Your Own GPT" webinar is rapidly approaching!

It is a Zoom-based learning experience for anyone who wants to incorporate custom GPTs into their pedagogy this year. With evidence growing of the effectiveness of this sort of intervention, now is the time to jump on the opportunity afforded by recent advances from OpenAI.

We have only several slots left in the first cohort. We want to keep each webinar small to maximize value for all attendees.

Now, you might be thinking: “wait, what are custom GPTs?” In brief, they are AI chatbots fueled by ChatGPT4 that you supply with instructions and files, thereby empowering them to effectively play a unique role. Graham has discussed using GPTs for in-class activities, as they can enable you to coach your students at scale. Graham uses two in his current classes at UNC Chapel Hill, and his students report that they find them incredibly useful. Other use-cases involve improving your own productivity or helping you with your pedagogy.

The webinar will occur on Zoom on Saturday, February 17th, from 12pm to 2pm Eastern Standard Time. It will be run by Graham, university professor and co-founder of AutomatED.

By the end of the webinar, you can expect to have learned how to develop your own GPTs — but you will also walk away with one already developed!

Here are the learning objectives. You will learn…

  1. what custom GPTs are, how they can be used, and what they are analogous to (and thus where else you can deploy the skills you develop in this webinar);

  2. the main components of successful GPT instructions, including those that reliably protect your GPT against misuse and those that enable it to handle complex tasks;

  3. how to add knowledge to your GPT, format it so that your GPT can parse it better, and instruct your GPT to rely on it in the correct contexts;

  4. how to implement and test your own GPT, all while receiving hands-on feedback from Graham and your cohortmates as you carry out these tasks during the webinar; and

  5. about advanced techniques, including integrating your GPT with other applications.

The agenda is below.

The price is $99. All Premium subscribers ($5/month or $50/year, with prices going up soon) get a 10% discount code, included immediately below. You will need ChatGPT Plus to participate in the activities.

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Webinar Agenda

12:00-12:20pm

  • Introductions

  • Outline of plan for the day, including discussion of our five learning objectives

  • Primer on what custom GPTs are and how they can be used

  • Discussion of which AI tools custom GPTs are analogous to

12:20-12:40pm

  • Activity: defining your GPT use case, sharing/discussing with your cohortmates, clarifying its purpose and needs

12:40-1:00pm

  • Prompting mini-lesson, covering:

    • the key components of all GPTs' instructions

    • the ways to ensure your GPT will reliably perform complex tasks

    • how to protect your GPT from misuse

    • the formatting methods that increase the performance of your GPT

    • the efficient use of OpenAI's instruction character limit

1:00-1:05pm

  • Break

1:05-1:15pm

  • Knowledge base mini-lesson, covering:

    • the kinds of files that you should consider adding to your GPT's knowledge

    • the ways that these files should be formatted

    • how you can get your GPT to reliably reference its knowledge

1:15-1:45pm

  • Activity: implementing your custom GPT, leveraging:

    • instruction templates provided by Graham

    • hands-on feedback from Graham

    • pressure-testing by your cohortmates

1:45-2:00pm

  • Advanced techniques mini-lesson, focused on linking other apps to your GPT with APIs.