2025 Hawaiʻi CS PD Summit

Generative AI, as championed by conversation chatbots like ChatGPT, has greatly impacted higher education for the past year or so. This presentation delves into the basics of Large Language Models (LLMs), prompt engineering, fine tuning, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) and the impact of these technologies in the classroom. Participants with laptops can engage in hands-on activities, but this is optional. This presentation will provide the latest updates in the core features and usage of popular AI tools such as closed models such as ChatGPT from OpenAI, Claude from Anthropic, and Gemma from Google as well as open source models in Hugging Face such as Mistral and Llama from Meta.