Does anybody have any suggestions for an interactive tutorial to learn more about AI, cyber safety, prompt engineering, etc.? Specific online resources please.!
I learnt from YouTube tutorials back in the day for thing like Visual Basic and later, Python. But once the basics are there, it’s best to ask the AIs. You can make a small Ollama Gemma 3n interface with a GUI, just by vibe coding it with Gemini Pro. Then you can get it to explain all the way it works and explain every line of code. You will soon see that it doesn’t have a memory of the conversation, so a RAG system is needed so it know what was said in the previous responses. Once you have that, you’ll have a MASSIVE understanding of how AI works. Then you can look into reading system prompts. I think 1 was leaked for something like Claude. It shows you how the LLM is forced into a certain way of reacting.
Although this won’t teach you how ChatGPT etc acutally recall so well what the conversation has been, it will give you and understanding of the basics of how it works.
Prompt engineering is different for each model. I find you need to be super clear about what belongs to what, and super clear about the order of things, and work is small chunks. Don’t try to do everything at once. And if you start out with creating an outline with the AI, and then a procedure plan of what to do in what order, then you can write those up as a fundamental guide to keep things on track. Then you can go step by step in chunks to get each part of whatever you are doing, right.
As for online resources, I find they are extremly confusing and complicated. You could find some and then ask Gemini to explain the parts for you. You can also ask Gemini to give you ideas about what resource to look for next and what keywords to search for. Then when you find some, as Gemini about them and to explain anything that’s confusing.
Fundamentally, you need to know what you want to actually do before you look for resources about those subjects. Once you know exactly what you want, then you can develop a process plan to go through step by step and get what you need.
Anyway best of luck. Hope this helps.
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