Building a custom AI assistant without any technical know-how
Tracy Playle - CEO, and founder of ContentEd
Pickle Jar Communications
As you start to explore the potential of generative AI tools, you’ll quickly notice that unless you craft deeply detailed prompts, the outputs that you receive can leave you underwhelmed. Sometimes the effort to write the perfect prompt that actually works, and the revisions needed afterwards, makes the whole process feel inefficient. You’re left thinking: “I may as well have just written that content myself”. Sound familiar?
One answer is to start from scratch and build your own AI tool. But most of us don’t have the coding or complex data science skills to do that easily available. And when such investments in large language models have already been made by others, wouldn’t we just be reinventing the wheel?
There is, however, another way. A way to blend the best of both worlds.
In this workshop, Tracy will introduce you to the concept of no-code AI workflows. Through hands-on demonstrations, you’ll see how with zero coding knowledge you can build a custom generative AI assistant for your institution that is tailored exactly to your needs, your style and tone, your goals, but harnesses the existing developments of industry-wide LLMs. Sit back and listen, or follow along live and build your own tool in real time.
Key Takeaways
Understand how to develop a workflow for your use of AI in content generation
Learn about the growth of no-code and low-code AI approaches
Know how to build a custom generative AI assistant tailored to your institution.
About Tracy
Tracy Playle is an experience designer and content strategist specializing in education sector advancement. She started her career working in-house in communications for the University of Warwick in the very early 2000s. In 2007 she founded her consultancy, Pickle Jar Communications, through which she and her team have supported more than 350 education and research organizations in over 30 countries with their approach to content strategy and engagement.
Tracy is the author of The Connected Campus: Creating a content strategy to drive engagement with your university (2020), and the founder of ContentEd and the Utterly Content Global Festival. She is a CASE Crystal Apple award winner and a CASE Laureate, and has been a volunteer for CASE Europe and CASE Asia Pacific for over 15 years.
Alongside her work as a content strategist, Tracy also runs a private coaching practice for leaders. She also coaches teams across the education sector to effect cultural change in how they work, to boost creativity and collaboration, and to supercharge their ability to make their strategies and visions become a reality.
She is committed to bringing playfulness, curiosity and compassion to everything that she does.