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What We'll Explore

■  discussion of prompt engineering.
■  examples of useful prompts.
■  tips for using social to 'sound out' your ideas.
■  examples of existing AI software.
■  useful AI newsletters.
■  helpful AI books.
■  differences among AI Agent, automation, Agentic AI.
■  how to create your own AI agent.

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The Roswell AI User Group, in cooperation with ENMU-R and its AI Learning Initiative, helps interested attendees and students learn, explore, and apply AI tools in practical ways.A short URL for this site that is easy to remember: RoswellAi.org

AI Meetings

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🚀 New: Our meetings will resume in September, allowing the last remnants of Roswell's annual alien invasion to dissipate. See you then! The meeting date will be September 25, at 9 AM.Our meetings are held on the ENMU-R Campus, in room 105 in the Instructional Technology Center (ITC). Room 105 has workstations for a more interactive experience. Map below.Other AI news is announced via email, so use the Submit form on the Home page to be added to the notification list.

🚀 New: Shawn Jipp, a local author and photographer, is giving AI meetings every Saturday in August, at 3 PM in the Roswell Public Library: AI Made Simple. Here's a link to his presentations.

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• Presentation of 2026-04-24 (PDF)

• AI is powerful—but without good prompts, it often produces weak or misleading results.
• Learning how to guide AI effectively is the difference between novelty and real-world usefulness.
The PDF is a simplified version of the live presentation. Animations are condensed for readability.

From Main Street: Go as far south as you can, turn right, then make a quick left onto University Boulevard. You will pass two parking lot entrances; enter the third Parking Lot entrance. The ITC (Instructional Technology Center) is west of the parking lot.If going South on Sunset/West Earl Cummings Loop, pass the NM National Guard, the Airport Park, and the turnoff to the Dorms/Residence Halls. Turn left onto Mathis, go past the dirt road, turn left into the first Parking Lot. The ITC (Instructional Technology Center) is west of the parking lot.From East Earl Cummings Loop, pass Gillis St, turn right onto G St., then left onto Mathis St. Pass University Blvd and turn at the next right into the ITC Parking Lot. The ITC (Instructional Technology Center) is west of the parking lot.

AI Software (Chatbots and more)

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Investigate NotebookLM. It lets you upload documents, websites, PDFs, and videos, then uses AI to summarize, explain, and connect information based only on your own materials. Works with Google Gemini. A Free plan allows up to 50 sources per Notebook, and up to 100 Notebooks per user. Three paid plans, max of 30 TB of storage.

How much should you spend on AI? (by one of my favorite sources, Ruben Hassid)? Dated, October 2025, but worth a look to read Why, and which ones.

Find YouTube Creator Grace Leung's favorite use cases for each popular AI tool, and her favorite prompts (see Prompts) for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity.

ChatGPT is a generative artificial intelligence chatbot developed by OpenAI. It was released in November 2022. It uses large language models—generative pre-trained transformers (GPTs)—to generate text, speech, and images in response to user prompts. OpenAI operates the service on a freemium model.Users interact with ChatGPT through conversations which consist of text, audio, and image inputs and outputs. The user's inputs to these conversations are referred to as prompts. An optional "Memory" feature allows users to tell ChatGPT to memorize specific information. Another option allows ChatGPT to recall old conversations. GPT-based moderation classifiers are used to reduce the risk of harmful outputs being presented to users.

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Claude is a series of large language models developed by Anthropic and first released in 2023. Its name has been described both as a tribute to Claude Shannon, who pioneered information theory, and as a friendly, male-gendered counterpart to AI assistants like Alexa and Siri. Released March 2023.Claude is used for software development via Claude Code. Claude uses constitutional AI, a training technique that was developed by Anthropic to improve ethical and legal compliance (AI alignment).

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Gemini (also known as Google Gemini and formerly known as Bard) is a generative artificial intelligence chatbot and virtual assistant developed by Google. It is powered by the large language model (LLM) of the same name, after previously being based on LaMDA and PaLM 2. Beta released December 2023.The Gemini architecture is trained natively on multiple data types, allowing the models to process and generate text, computer code, images, audio, and video simultaneously. Google distributes the technology in varying capacities, ranging from efficient on-device versions ("Nano") and cost-effective, high-throughput variants ("Flash") to high-compute models designed for complex reasoning ("Pro" and "Ultra"). The 1.5 and 3 model generations introduced extended context windows, enabling the analysis of large datasets such as entire codebases, long-form videos, or extensive document archives in a single prompt.

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Perplexity AI, Inc., or simply Perplexity, is an American privately held software company offering a web search engine that processes user queries and synthesizes responses. Perplexity products use large language models and incorporate real-time web search capabilities, providing responses based on current Internet content, citing sources used. Its real-time search engine is called Sonar and is based on Meta's open-source Llama. A free public version is available, while a paid Pro subscription offers access to more advanced language models and additional features. Released December 2022.Perplexity’s primary offering is an online information retrieval system (search engine) that uses large language models to generate responses to user queries by searching and summarizing web-based content. Perplexity offers a feature known as Perplexity Pages that generates structured summaries and report-like content from user queries by aggregating cited sources. Perplexity is available without charge or registration to Web users, a freemium model.

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Grok is a generative artificial intelligence chatbot developed by xAI. It was launched in November 2023 by Elon Musk as an initiative based on the large language model (LLM) of the same name. Grok has apps for iOS and Android and is integrated with the X social network and Tesla's Optimus robot. The chatbot is named after the verb grok, coined by American author Robert A. Heinlein to describe a form of understanding.On November 17, 2025, xAI released Grok 4.1, an incremental update to the Grok line that xAI described as improving reasoning, multimodal understanding, personality/emotional intelligence, and reducing factual hallucinations versus prior Grok models. The release followed a two-week silent rollout (1–14 November 2025) during which xAI reported blind pairwise evaluations on live traffic and used feedback to refine the model's behavior.xAI simultaneously announced Grok 4.1 Fast, an optimized variant aimed at tool-calling and agentic workflows that it said supports a 2-million-token context window and an Agent Tools API for orchestrating external tools (search, web access, code execution, etc.).

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AI Prompts

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Verbalized Sampling: How to Mitigate Mode Collapse and Unlock LLM Diversity

Say it twice! Repeating your prompt twice is one of the simplest and most effective ways to improve AI output, especially for factual and extraction tasks. A Google Research paper, 12/1/7/25.But as my associate Shawn Jipp found after digging through the Research Paper, those findings only apply to certain situations.

Verbalized Sampling Promptbook. 16 System Prompts for Gemini 3, GPT-5.1, Claude 4.5 & Grok 4.1.

Find YouTube Creator Grace Leung's favorite use cases for each popular AI tool (see Software), and her favorite prompts for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity.

The Mother of all Prompts, by Ruben Hassid. You don't need crazy prompts. This one prompt covers 80% of your needs: I want to [DO THIS TASK] for [MY SUCCESS CRITERIA IS THIS]. If you're not sure where you're going, add: Ask me questions before starting so we define our plan first.Once your AI bot gave you an answer, but you want to make sure it does not sound like an AI, just follow up with: Audit your text using the anti-ai-writing-style.md file from your folder. (See the Markdowns section.)

🚀 New: Prompt Engineering for Generative AI, Future-Proof Inputs for Reliable AI Outputs at Scale, by James Phoenix and MikeTaylor. A dense book; it helps if you're a programmer in Python! But their Five Principles of Prompting are worth following: 1. Give Direction; 2. Specify Format; 3. Provide Examples; 4. Evaluate Quality; 5. Divide Labor. 128 illustrations help a lot. Skip over the code and you still can learn a lot.

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AI Agents

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AI Agents, Clearly Explained. Jeff Su breaks down complex AI concepts into a simple three-level learning path for non-technical users. Discover the practical differences between large language models, structured AI workflows, and autonomous AI agents using real-life examples. A YouTube video, 10:08 minutes, April 8, 2025.

Agents replace interfaces. The UI is generated on demand. Ask, don't navigate.What’s really happening with software interfaces in the age of AI agents? The common story is that great products live or die by their beautiful, coherent User Interface — but the reality is more complicated.In a video, Matt B. Jones shares the inside scoop on how generative UI, agentic software, and disposable pixels are reshaping B2B SaaS and enterprise tools:
• Why coherent interfaces were an economic hack, not destiny.
• How agentic layers sit over durable substrates and systems of record.
• What disposable pixels mean for SaaS moats, schemas, and APIs.
• Where designers, PMs, and engineers must reskill around intent.
• See the complicated question and the 19-second response!For B2B SaaS leaders and builders, the opportunity is to treat AI strategy as substrate-first and agent-ready, while the risk is clinging to pixel-perfect monoliths that agents and users will route around.This 2025 AI analysis explores a crucial, often-overlooked survival metric for software. The presenter examines how generative AI impacts user interface design, software strategy, and talent needs. Discover how this shift impacts B2B SaaS and the future of software development.

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AI Books

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While not strictly an AI book, it's a great read that touches on many interesting topics. Its 21-page Index mentions AI more than 50 times.On p.279, the author, the inventor of the World Wide Web, has a diagram that I call The Internet of Everything. It has about 100 items, with 50 connections between them. Websites, apps, protocols, data formats, processes, oh my. I'm looking into how to expand it with lots of hyperlinks.The book is available at the Roswell Public Library, Dewey Decimal System Call No. 004.678. When it first arrived, I found it in the New Books - Nonfiction area. Hardcover, 400 pages.

A breathtaking--and dangerously evolving--world of AI in the medical industry. A thriller. Found at the New Arrivals shelf at the Roswell Public Library. Hardcover, 432 pages.

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Verbalized Sampling Promptbook. Available online.

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Project Maven. A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare. By Katrina Manson, March 24, 2026. Hardcover, 416 pages.

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AI for Good: How Real People Are Using Artificial Intelligence to Fix Things That Matter. By Josh Tyrangiel, May 12, 2026. Hardcover, 272 pages.

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🚀 New: Top 11 AI Books to Read in 2026. AI is everywhere, and we're not always sure which resources are the best at helping us continue learning or look at AI through a specific lens. Cut through the hype and improve your AI understanding with the Fluid Topics list of AI books to add to your "to-be-read" list. Published April 28, 2026.

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🚀 New: AI Book Club: A Human in the Loop. This book club focuses on reading and discussing popular books about AI and technology, with an emphasis on how humans, specifically tech writers, might steer and guide AI systems toward the outcomes they want. The selection covers popular, accessible books rather than engineering-heavy texts or books specifically focused on technical communication. Last updated: Apr 27, 2026.

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AI Certifications

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Per Ruben Hassid, Claude is offering 13 free AI courses and Certificates.

9 Free AI Courses with Certificates

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AI Cheat Sheets

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Claude AI Cheat Sheet

ChatGPT Cheat Sheet

Gemini Cheat Sheet

AI Disinformation

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🚀 New: Best AI detector 2026: A Reddit poster ranked 9 tools after 3 weeks of testing (GPTZero, Originality AI, Turnitin, and more). TL/DR: They're not all garbage. But most of them have significant blind spots, and basically none of them do a good job detecting rewritten AI text. The false positive problem is also way worse than most tools admit.

🚀 New: Here is a link to an AI Font Quiz. See if you can tell an AI-generated font from one made by humans. It's hard!Here is a link to a font called Ghost. Its movement confuses AI text readers. After a 19-minute analysis, ChatGPT 5.5 Pro hallucinated a message that doesn't exist.And here's a font called Decoy. When minimized, it reads one way; when enlarged, it seems to read differently. Click the message in the link to see it change.These are all from Mixfont, where you can build your own fonts by giving simple instructions. They have a Free plan and several paid upgrades.

Dr. StrangeAI: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Hallucinations

When LLMs daydream: Hallucinations and how to prevent them

Where is AI in 2026, and Where is it Going? Ongoing presentation of the AI Safety Awareness Project. AI safety concepts are a significant part of the presentation.

Free webinar dates

Notable quote from Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales: "Large language models aren’t good enough to write really quality reference material. So a lot of it is just regurgitated Wikipedia,” he said. “It often is quite rambling and sort of talks nonsense. And I think the more obscure topic you look into, the worse it is.”Wales said he doesn’t consider Grokipedia a “real threat” to Wikipedia because it’s based on large language models, which are the troves of online text that AI systems are trained on. He stressed that he wasn’t singling out criticism of Grokipedia. “It’s just the way large language models work.” (Wales, quoted in CNBC, Oct. 28, 2025.)

LLM hallucinations in the wild: Large-scale evidence from non-existent citations. Published 5/8/26. There is a sharp rise in non-existent references following widespread LLM adoption, with a conservative estimate of 146,932 hallucinated citations in 2025 alone. That's more than 400 a day!
One-page hard copy here.

Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence. Across 11 AI models, the model’s responses were nearly 50% more sycophantic than humans’, even when users engaged in unethical, illegal, or harmful behaviors. Published 5/26/26 in Science, Vol. 391, No. 6792.

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