VWEC AI Expert Series presentation by Dr. Cynthia Calongne, aka Lyr Lobo, and Joyce Bettencourt, aka Rhiannon Chatnoir. Description: Join us at the Virtual Worlds Education Consortium in Second Life as we explore the use of AI in education and the Arts. This session features AI use in virtual worlds, teaching AI for ethical use, safety, explainable AI, and research, and prompt generation to create artifacts for sparking creativity and inspiration.

1. STEAMy AI and
Natural Language Processing
Joyce Bettencourt
Rhiannon Chatnoir
about.me/JoyceBettencourt
Cynthia Calongne
Lyr Lobo
CTU, OSCC, & Virtual Harmony

2. Artificial Intelligence
Expert Systems
Rules-based Systems
Machine Learning
Sentiment Analysis
Videos on next slide
Neural Networks
(3Blue1Brown, 2017)
Reference
3Blue1Brown. (2017, October 17). But
what is a neural network? [Video].
YouTube. https://youtu.be/aircAruvnKk

3. Natural Language Processing (NLP) Videos
TensorFlow. (2020a, February 20). Natural language
processing – Tokenization (NLP zero to hero – part 1) [Video].
YouTube. https://youtu.be/fNxaJsNG3-s
TensorFlow. (2020b, February 25). Sequencing – Turning
sentences into data (NLP zero to hero – part 2) [Video].
YouTube. https://youtu.be/r9QjkdSJZ2g
TensorFlow. (2020c, March 3). Training a model to recognize
sentiment in text (NLP zero to hero – part 3) [Video].
YouTube. https://youtu.be/Y_hzMnRXjhI
a book, with chat GPT AI stories pouring out of it,
cartoon style Message

7. AI-Generated Content
AI can generate content by training algorithms
with large data sets to learn and be prompted to
create 2D & 3D art, make music and write copy.
Google Bard - https://bard.google.com
ChatGPT - https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt
DALL-E 2 - https://openai.com/dall-e-2/
Craiyon (Formerly DALL-E Mini) -
https://www.craiyon.com
Stable Diffusion - https://beta.dreamstudio.ai
Night Cafe - https://creator.nightcafe.studio
Midjourney - https://www.midjourney.com
Microsoft Bing Image creator -
Runway - https://runwayml.com
...and there are many more out there!
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8. What Are Prompts?
Prompts are descriptions in natural language
that act as an input for AI text and art
generators, such as ChatGPT, DALL.E 2,
Midjourney, Stable DIffusion, and other machine
learning models.
Prompts can be as simple as a single line of
text, or they can be highly descriptive or vague.
Prompts can also be images.
Crafting prompts is an art form in itself,
discovering inputs that yield desirable or useful
results. You can add extra parameters to your
prompt to refine the image results you get back.
avatarjoy_robot wearing a chefs hat and holding a spatula, the robot is in a
kitchen looking at a recipe, colorful futuristic style

9. AI - Image Generation - Diffusion Models
Image generator prompts work best when you format
them similar to how image captions are formatted.
Prompts can include things like:
● adding nouns/names of your subject,
● descriptive adjectives
● medium you want the art to look like it was
created in
● style and artist names you want your artwork
inspired by
● quality and dimensions,
● should the image be realistic, photographic,
illustrative, computer graphics rendered?
AI - Transformers: Large
Language Models (Google
Bard, ChatGPT, etc)
These models gather lots of
text knowledge (from the
internet, books, social media,
etc.) and when prompted,
they use this to guess what
content to give based off of
instructions given and what
they know. This can include
making up things!
Generally better at editing
than creating.
Prompt format: Role,
Task/Action, Background
/imagine
Prompt Engineering
“Instant Insights” mage courtesy Trust Insights -
https://www.trustinsights.ai/promptsheet
Image courtesy of https://medium.com/@pythoslabs

12. Lyr Lobo’s Second Life Endowment for the Arts Exhibit

13. Imagine a girl finding a Secret Garden through a portal to a
dystopian future London, style of Thomas Cole’s The Voyage of Life

25. Resources
Slides - https://bit.ly/STEAMyAI
Resource Doc -
https://bit.ly/VWEC-STEAMyAI
Try out BlueWillow & Midjourney on
AvaCon’s Discord server -
https://discord.gg/Ab9QDZM
AI Generated Content Pinterest board -
https://www.pinterest.com/avatarjoy/aigc/
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