Generative AI for Everyone
Published by O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Understand generative AI applications, benefits, and risks
- Gain an understanding of generative AI, its applications, and its potential impact on your organization
- Understand what prompt engineering is and why you should master it
- Learn how generative AI can create content on the fly, improve personalization, and automate tedious tasks
- Explore industry trends, interesting AI tools, and the future powered by generative AI
Join expert Altaf Rehmani to learn the fundamentals of generative AI and its real-world business use cases. You'll understand the importance of prompt engineering, discover how generative models work, and get a rundown of the tools, companies, and open source projects creating buzz in this space. You’ll gain an understanding of GenAI’s risks and limitations—along with strategies for mitigating them—and you’ll come away with tips for successfully integrating the technology into your business processes.
What you’ll learn and how you can apply it
- Learn how generative models work, and their applications and potential
- Get started on the path to mastering prompt engineering
- Separate the hype surrounding generative AI from actionable next steps
This live event is for you because...
- You’re a business or technology professional who’s curious to learn what this transformative technology portends for you and your business.
Prerequisites
- Look over exercise template for high-level generative AI plan (to come)
- Attend: Artificial intelligence: An overview of AI and machine learning (live course with Alex Castrounis)
Course Follow-Up:
- Read: AI for People and Business by Alex Castrounis (book)
- Take Artificial intelligence (live online course by Alex Castrounis)
Schedule
The time frames are only estimates and may vary according to how the class is progressing.
Fundamentals, business benefits, and use cases (60 minutes)
- Presentation: Generative AI, its applications and potential impact on businesses; prompt engineering and why you should master it; business benefits and real-world use cases; how generative AI can drive innovation, efficiency, and growth; examples of successful implementations
- Q&A
- Break
Practical uses of generative models (60 minutes)
- Presentation: Understanding risks and limitations of using generative models; ChatGPT and Bard; some power use cases using language models; image models (Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, Lexica Art); companies, tools, and projects at the forefront of generative AI and its applications
- Hands-on exercise/discussion: Consider and share how generative AI can be innovatively applied in your business area
- Q&A
Your Instructor
Altaf Rehmani
Altaf Rehmani has more than 20 years of experience working for large enterprises as well as startups. He works for a large financial service organization as a digital transformation specialist where he leads business application development (using low code) as well as a generative AI consultant to various groups. He is interested in all things digital and how they can be used to create businesses of the future.