Learn about the world of AI (Artificial Intelligence) with Dale Wilkins and local Roswell attendees from the perspective of actual AI users—a quickfire mind dump and Q&A session!This is a new group being formed right now. We plan periodic meetings in cooperation with ENMU-R on their campus. Retirees (like me), students, and interested parties are welcome.Newbies to AI? Come learn. Old AI pros (if there is such a thing)? Share your knowledge!

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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.

✓ You’re not early to AI — it already has practical uses.
✓ You’re not late to AI — its future is still unfolding.
✓ Your timing is just right — mature tools are ready to explore together.

About

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

AI Meetings

Our very first meeting of the Roswell AI User Group will occur on April 24, 2026! We're calling it our Founders Meeting, and we hope to see all of you there. Subsequent meetings will be announced via email, so make sure to sign in.Our meetings will be held on the ENMU-R Campus, in room 155 in the Instructional Technology Center (ITC), at 9:00 A.M.

AI Software

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.

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.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).

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.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.

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.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.

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.[63] 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.[63]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.).[

AI Prompts

"The Mother of all Prompts," by Ruben Hassid.

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

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AI Books

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. Suggested by Dale Wilkins.

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

How to Get 10x More Creative AI Outputs: The Verbalized Sampling Promptbook.

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AI Newsletters

Ruben Hassid's How to AI is a Substack publication that offers a step-by-step guide for anyone looking to start using AI effectively, even if they are not technically inclined. The guide is designed to help users set up their AI tools, create their first draft, build real projects, and get feedback on their work. Hassid provides detailed instructions and prompts to guide readers through each level of AI usage, from basic setup to advanced tasks. The publication is free to subscribe to and offers valuable insights and resources for anyone interested in leveraging AI for productivity and efficiency. Suggested by Dale Wilkins.

How to AI

There's An AI For That is another valuable newsletter resource.It has a 100% completely free version that shows only AI tools that are completely free to use, with no hidden costs or premium features. Additionally, it has a Freemium version and a Free Trial mode.
Suggested by Dale Wilkins.

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AI Certifications

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AI Disinformation

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

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