Generative AI Essentials with ChatGPT, Copilot, and Gemini
Published by Pearson
Improve IT workflows, automate tasks, and build your own chatbot in just 4 hours
- Learn the foundations of ChatGPT, Copilot, Google Gemini and how to use them for IT workflows
- Understand generative and predictive AI tools and how they can be used for cybersecurity, code development, and other applications
- Learn how to build your own AI chatbots and how to train datasets from standard tools
The advent of generative AI technologies marks a pivotal shift in the IT and technology landscape, introducing novel opportunities and unprecedented challenges. AI is not merely beneficial—it's imperative. This course aims to unravel the significance of generative AI in IT ecosystems, proceeding from foundational concepts to intricate methodologies and culminating in exploring its implications and strategic advice for practitioners.
This class will not only show you the benefits of learning generative AI but also how to use generative AI to accomplish:
- Increased efficiency and productivity
- Enhanced creativity and innovation
- Personalized experiences in tailoring content and solutions
- Addressing complex challenges
Learning generative AI technologies can equip you with valuable skills for the future workforce and empower you to contribute to advancements in various fields. As generative AI continues to evolve, understanding its potential and implications is becoming increasingly important.
What you’ll learn and how you can apply it
- Learn to use generative AI beyond the basics and use it to create and augment IT workloads
- Learn how to use interact and interface APIs from popular generative AI tools
- Learn how to create and use your own datasets with existing AI tools
- Learn how to create your own AI chatbots with your custom training data
This live event is for you because...
- You are interested in understanding why generative AI is the most talked about technology and want to know the benefits generative AI may have in IT environments
- You are new to AI, Machine Learning, or software automation
- You already use generative AI tools but want to know how they can get more out of the tools and be more productive and efficient with their time
Prerequisites
- General understanding of computers and computing systems in an IT enterprise network.
Course Set-up
- Google Chrome browser (alternative web browsers may not work correctly)
- Microsoft Edge browser (alternative web browsers may not work correctly)
- To follow along, you can create free accounts for OpenAI, Microsoft (note: this is the same thing as a Outlook.com account), and Google (note: this is the same thing as a Gmail account)
Recommended Preparation
- Listen: AI Unveiled by Sinan Ozdemir
Recommended Follow-up
- Attend: AI Text-to-Image Modeling with Stable Diffusion and Midjourney by Aamir Lakhani
- Attend: Large Language Models and ChatGPT in 3 Weeks by Sinan Ozdemir
- Read: Quick Start Guide to Large Language Models: Strategies and Best Practices for Using ChatGPT and Other LLMs by Sinan Ozdemir
Schedule
The time frames are only estimates and may vary according to how the class is progressing.
Segment 1: ChatGPT (50 Minutes)
- Introduction into ChatGPT
- ChatGPT advanced features and techniques
- ChatGPT APIs and App integration into IT environments
- ChatGPT limitations
- ChatGPT used for cybersecurity and limitations
- Writing code with ChatGPT and other software development techniques
- Exercise: Create cybersecurity and system automation
- Q&A
Segment 2: Google Gemini (60 Minutes)
- Introduction into Google Gemini
- Google Gemini advanced features and techniques
- Google Gemini APIs and App integration into IT environments
- Google Gemini limitations
- Google Gemini vs ChatGPT
- Exercise: Building AI machine learning code with Gemini used for Cloud and Cybersecurity
- Q&A
Break (10 Minutes)
Segment 3: Microsoft Copilot (60 Minutes)
- Introduction into Microsoft Bing AI
- Copilot on Windows 11
- Copilot as a cloud service
- Copilot vs ChatGPT
- Copilot vs Google Gemini
- Exercise: Building Copilot AI automation tasks for Windows
- Q&A
Segment 4: Alternative Generative AIs (50 Minutes)
- Introduction to Alternative Generative AIs: Pros and Cons of your own AI vs major players
- Exercise: Building your own Alternative Generative AI chatbot
- Q&A
Course Q&A and Wrap Up (10 Minutes)
Your Instructor
Aamir Lakhani
Aamir Lakhani is a leading senior security strategist. He is responsible for providing IT security solutions to major enterprises and government organizations.
Mr. Lakhani creates technical security strategies and leads security implementation projects for Fortune 500 companies. Industries of focus include healthcare providers, educational institutions, financial institutions and government organizations. Aamir has designed offensive counter-defense measures for the Department of Defense and national intelligence agencies. He has also assisted organizations with safeguarding IT and physical environments from attacks perpetrated by underground cybercriminal groups. Mr. Lakhani is considered an industry leader for creating detailed security architectures within complex computing environments. His areas of expertise include cyber defense, mobile application threats, malware management, Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) research, and investigations relating to the Internet’s dark security movement. He is the author or contributor of several books, and has appeared on FOX Business News, National Public Radio, and other media outlets as an expert on cybersecurity.
Writing under the pseudonym Dr. Chaos, Mr. Lakhani also operates the popular security social media blog which is hosted at DrChaos.com. In its recent list of 46 Federal Technology Experts to Follow on Twitter, Forbes magazine described Aamir Lakhani as “a blogger, InfoSec specialist, super hero…and all around good guy.”