Humanitarian AI Promptathons are Here!

The Humanitarian AI meetup community is launching a series of “promptathons” to collect sample questions and commands needed to train and test large language models.

This week our Humanitarian AI meetup community, linking together local groups in fifteen cities, is launching a series of hackathon style “Promptathons”. Our goal is to recruit staff from humanitarian organizations to help crowdsource sample questions and commands needed to train, test and fine-tune large language models and conversational AI applications useful to the humanitarian community.

2024: The Year of Prototyping

The launch of ChatGPT in 2023 jolted the humanitarian community into recognizing that artificial intelligence is going to not only impact humanitarian operations but upend the field faster than we are ready for.

In 2024 a wide variety of humanitarian organizations and connected initiatives launched by government development agencies and academic institutions are going to be getting serious about artificial intelligence and concentrating on prototyping humanitarian AI applications. Starting-out slowly and methodologically, organizations are going to use prototyping and testing to acquaint themselves with AI technology and develop the internal knowhow to put AI to use.

Sample Questions and Commands

Although humanitarian AI project we’ll see in 2024 will vary widely, what they aim to do are things that ultimately can be defined and expressed in spoken words. What then will these words ask to do? Our promtathons will help to aggregate notions of the many types of ways humanitarian actors might like to employ artificial intelligence.

These articulations in the forms of questions and commands are going to be needed to train, test, fine-tune and improve humanitarian AI applications.

Stay tuned for more information and updates on the project!