Prompting Bootcamp
Published by O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Crafting content with generative AI
What you’ll learn and how you can apply it
- Apply AI-powered text, image, and video generation tools—such as ChatGPT and image diffusion models—to your own creative or professional projects
- Understand how AI interprets visual inputs, including how it perceives images, identifies key elements, and applies visual reasoning
- Learn the principles and methods of prompt design and optimization to consistently generate accurate and useful outputs
- Discover how to create, edit, and refine images using text prompts, and how to reliably generate diagrams, charts, and visual content for presentations or data analysis
- Explore how to capture complex thoughts visually—such as through concept maps or annotated images—and then use AI tools to explain or analyze them
- Generate basic videos using AI and understand the foundational prompts and tools that support video creation
- Learn how thoughtful prompt engineering can significantly improve results across a wide range of generative AI applications
- Build a personal repository of high-performing keywords, phrasings, and prompt structures that you can reuse in future projects for consistent success
Course description
Join us for an immersive two-day bootcamp on prompt engineering, designed to equip you with the essential skills and knowledge to craft powerful and effective prompts for generative AI models like ChatGPT. In this intensive two-day program, you’ll dive deep into the art and science of creating prompts that yield accurate and meaningful responses.
Throughout the bootcamp, you’ll learn the principles of prompt engineering, including framing, context setting, and specifying desired outputs. You'll explore various strategies to optimize prompts for different tasks, such as question-answering, creative visuals, and problem-solving. Learn how to use AI tools to create, edit, and analyze images in this practical online course extension. You'll discover how to write strong prompts, fix mistakes in images, and capture ideas visually. You'll also learn how AI interprets images, understands visual details, and can even perform visual reasoning to determine where a photo was taken. Exercises and live examples will help you follow along each step of the way.
Through hands-on exercises, real-world examples, and interactive discussions, you'll gain practical experience in constructing prompts that elicit desired responses and effectively guide both language and visual model outputs. By mastering prompt engineering, you'll be able to leverage the full potential of large language and diffusion models, enhance their performance, and unlock new possibilities for your projects and applications.
Attending this bootcamp is essential for anyone seeking to maximize the effectiveness of large AI models and leverage their capabilities to solve real-world problems. By honing your prompt engineering skills, you'll gain a competitive edge in natural language processing tasks, image generation, virtual assistance, video generation, and more. Whether you are a developer, researcher, content creator, or AI enthusiast, this bootcamp offers a unique opportunity to enhance your expertise, stay at the forefront of AI advancements, and unleash the true potential of generative models. Don't miss out on this transformative learning experience that will propel your projects to new heights.
This live event is for you because...
- You’re a business or technical professional who wants to create content, images, diagrams, or capture your thoughts visually.
- You work with designers and copywriters.
- You want to become a prompt engineer.
- You’re an existing ChatGPT user who wants to go beyond basic text interaction in your daily work.
- You’re a content creator or author seeking assistance in creating illustrations.
- You work in sales and marketing and are looking for innovative approaches to content creation.
- You’re a researcher or academic in need of help with communicating information visually.
Prerequisites
- Create an OpenAI account for ChatGPT or ChatGPT Plus (paid) for Day 1
- Access to a chatbot that can generate images (e.g., Google Gemini, ChatGPT, Meta.ai)
- Access to the paid version of ChatGPT if you want to follow along on some of the more advanced demos
Recommended preparation:
- Take Generative AI for Everyone (live course with Altaf Rehmani)
Recommended follow-up:
- Explore Adobe Photoshop Elements Visual QuickStart Guide (on-demand course)
- Attend Artificial Intelligence for Everyone (live online course with Alex Castrounis)
- Read Prompt Engineering for Generative AI (book)
- Take Using Generative AI to Boost Your Personal Productivity (live online course with David Griffiths)
- Take ChatGPT to Improve Your Writing (live online course with David Griffiths)
Schedule
The time frames are only estimates and may vary according to how the class is progressing.
Day 1: Working with Text
Introduction and context setting (15 minutes)
- Presentation: ChatGPT basics; ongoing mass adoption of ChatGPT across various industries; getting started with ChatGPT
Natural language processing and large language models (20 minutes)
- Presentation: Natural speech versus typed text; different intent and interpretation; how LLMs are trained—reinforcement learning approaches
- Group discussion: Now that you have a better understanding of how natural language processing works, what are tools like ChatGPT best suited for?
Prompt engineering (45 minutes)
- Presentation: Prompting versus asking; the concept of priming; “training” ChatGPT within the confines of your conversation; avoiding GPT fatigue and repetition; setting parameters and boundaries; using specific writing styles for specific results; accuracy, GPT hallucinations, and other ethical considerations—why human editors and fact-checkers are so important; iterative querying techniques; understanding the limits of ChatGPT
- Hands-on exercise: Write your own prompt using the prompt template
- Break
Creating your personal prompt library (10 minutes)
- Presentation: Storing custom instructions in ChatGPT
Future uses of ChatGPT (10 minutes)
- Presentation: Future uses for ChatGPT, such as integrations with other systems and new features
- Group discussion: How will ChatGPT change things in the next five years?
Wrap-up and Q&A (20 minutes)
Day 2: Working with Images
Basic image prompts (30 minutes)
- Presentation: Aspects of an image prompt
- Hands-on exercise: Titles for Mad Hen
- Demo: Refine/edit images inside ChatGPT
- Q&A
Diagrams and charts (15 minutes)
- Presentation: Creating charts/diagrams reliably with AI
- Hands-on exercise: Chart how an alien spends their time
- Q&A
Photoshop AI (15 minutes)
- Demo: Prompting inside photoshop
- Q&A
- Break
Prompting with images (20 minutes)
- Demo: Capturing tabular data visually; translating text
- Hands-on exercise: Where was this photo taken?
- Presentation: Geo-locating images with AI
- Q&A
Capturing visual thinking (15 minutes)
- Demo: Capturing whiteboards
- Presentation: Going from doodles to diagrams and beyond
- Q&A
Upscaling images (5 minutes)
- Demo: Creating higher-res photos
AI video (15 minutes)
- Demo: Generating video with AI
- Q&A
Wrap-up and Q&A (5 minutes)
Your Instructors
Sarah Tamsin
Sarah Tamsin is a website developer and content creator who founded Digital Rebel Academy, a training company aimed at helping small businesses make the most of online opportunities. She has a background working with nonprofit organizations and in local government IT support, spending over 20 years creating digital content. Sarah also runs multiple other passive online enterprises, most of which are automated businesses that run on autopilot.
David Griffiths
David Griffiths founded HereScreen Ltd and is the author or coauthor of seven books, including Head First Android Development and The React Cookbook. David has also written for magazines about software development and created online training material.