Welcome to the AI 101 website
AI 101 is an AI Salon guild. This website hosts useful resources for our community. Your host is Peter Kaminski.
Discussion Space
Our main discussion space is in Learn and Do with Peter guild on the AI Salon community site. Free AI Salon registration is required to participate.
Topics
Click the topic name to go to an index page for that topic.
- AI 101 Building Blocks - where to start from the ground up
- Midjourney - a very good image generator
- Obsidian+Git - useful for GPT makers and ChatGPT users
- Jankifiers - web pages that can "jankify" text, such as prompts for AI (aka how to write small interactive apps, no programming experience needed!)
- API - an API is used by computer systems to exchange data and perform operations, and can be used by GPTs
- Python - a popular programming language (sometimes knowing a little about it is helpful for AI stuff)
- Retrieval Augmented Generation - a way for an LLM to use information from a large corpus of documents
- Podcast Generators - a functionality popularized by NotebookLM
- Upcoming Topics - topics that don't have their own pages yet
- Resources - other highly useful learning materials
Live Session Recordings
Pete hosts live AI 101 videoconferences. Check the "Events" tab in Peter's AI 101 discussion space for upcoming events.
The sessions listed below have pages on this website with a link to the recording, and any chats, summaries, or downloadable files.
Click on the name of a session to go to that session's web page.
There is also a hand-maintained list of Live Session Notes.
October 2024
August 2024
May 2024
April 2024
March 2024
- Learn and Do with Peter, 2024-03-29 - Jankifiers in more depth
- Learn and Do with Peter, 2024-03-24 - Jankifiers introduced (but not called as such)
- Learn and Do with Peter, 2024-03-16
- Learn and Do with Peter, 2024-03-15
- Learn and Do with Peter, 2024-03-10 - Our own LLM front-end, Salamander
- Learn and Do with Peter, 2024-03-09 - Why (or why not) to build our own LLM front-end
- AI 101 Live Session, 2024-03-02 - Markdown, Obsidian install and first steps
- AI 101 Live Session, 2024-03-01 - Image workflow
February 2024
- AI 101, Let's Learn About APIs (and a tiny bit of trying Claude API), 2024-02-24 - deep dive on APIs, a tiny bit about Claude API
- AI 101 Live Session, 2024-02-23 - LLMs and teaching / learning
- AI 101 Live Session, 2024-02-22 - Midjourney, DALL-E, temperature/chaos
- AI 101 Live Session, 2024-02-17 - Obsidian, computational thinking, ChatGPT Exporter, learning Python
- AI 101 Live Session, 2024-02-15 - Computational thinking, OpenAI API
- AI 101 Live Session, 2024-02-10 - NFTs as a marketplace for AI art
- AI 101 Live Session, 2024-02-08 - Obsidian, exiftool, etiquette, legalities
- AI 101 Live Session, 2024-02-03 - local AI, GitHub as professional profile, LLMs and image generators
- AI 101 Live Session, 2024-02-01 - image generators, image editors, digitization, surveillance, Massive Wiki Builder, Obsidian
January 2024
December 2023
YouTube Playlist
The videos are also listed on YouTube in an AI 101 YouTube Playlist if that is convenient for you.
Helping Maintain This Website
You can help maintain this website! Send Pete your GitHub account handle (or ask him how to set one up): Contact Peter Kaminski.
Then the typical tools to use are:
- Command line on your computer (Terminal on Mac, Command Prompt or PowerShell on Windows)
- Git
- Obsidian
- Git plugin for Obsidian
- gh, then
gh auth login
Those are listed in rough order of setup/install. Once set up, most of the work is handled within Obsidian.
We'll have more comprehensive setup instructions on this website soon.
Other Resources
Pages that link to this page