AI: What's New and What's Next
Wednesday, March 11 | 9am - 11am | In-Person
Three years of revolution—plus your roadmap forward.
ChatGPT launched in November 2022 with an 8,000-token context window (you can think of a token as a short word). Today's models handle millions of tokens—the equivalent of reading the entire Bible, Atlas Shrugged, and all of Tolkien in a single conversation. And context windows are just one dimension of the transformation.
If you blinked, you missed something important. Multimodal models. Reasoning capabilities. Computer use. Agentic browsers. Code execution. Deep research. The pace of change has been relentless, and each new capability opens possibilities that weren't imaginable months earlier.
This workshop is part history, part landscape survey, and part roadmap. You'll learn:
The Key Milestones (2022–2026)
- The major releases and why they mattered: GPT-4, Claude 3, Gemini 2, reasoning models
- What "multimodal" actually means and why it changed everything
- The context window explosion: from 8k tokens to 150 million words
- The rise of thinking/reasoning models: o1, DeepSeek R1, Claude 3.7
The Current Landscape
- The right tools: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, NotebookLM
- The right models: GPT-5.2-thinking, Opus 4.5, Gemini 3 Pro
- Understanding what each platform does best
Power User Features
- Artifacts and canvases: working documents within your conversation
- Projects: persistent context and custom instructions
- Personalization: memory, preferences, and custom writing styles
- Deep research: commissioning comprehensive reports
What's Coming Next
- Scheduled actions and autonomous tasks
- Code execution and "vibe coding"
- Integration, connectors, and automations
- Operators and agents: AI that takes action
This workshop is ideal for anyone who's been using AI tools but wants to understand the bigger picture and identify what to learn next.
Collaboration with CELT and CAIDS.
