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AI Fundamentals
- Categories:
- Artificial Intelligence Cyber Security
- Level:
- Fundamentals
- Code:
- QASCAAIFUN
- Exam:
- Not Applicable
Overview
Embark on an exciting journey to explore the potential of AI in everyday work with our comprehensive AI Fundamentals course. This immersive two-day training program is designed to equip AI enthusiasts with an in-depth understanding of AI assistants, their functionalities, and their transformative potential in optimizing workflows and business processes.
Participants will gain a thorough understanding of the AI landscape, delve into the intricacies of prompt engineering, and explore practical AI applications through hands-on exercises and real-world case studies. The course also brings to light various AI tools, their applications, and their impact on everyday life.
Our goal is to empower you with the knowledge and skills to navigate the rapidly evolving AI ecosystem effectively and confidently. Join us to unravel the mysteries of AI and discover its transformative potential.
Prerequisites
No prerequisites, this course is designed for AI enthusiasts at the fundamentals level and requires only general IT knowledge
Target Audience
- Developers looking to understand AI concepts and applications.
- Individual Specialists who want to optimize workflows using AI tools.
- Security Professionals interested in AI's role in cybersecurity and risk management.
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What's included
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What is Virtual?
Live, instructor-led training delivered online
Interactive online sessions led by subject matter experts. Learners join live classes, take part in discussions, and complete practical exercises from any location, making it easy to fit collaborative learning into busy schedules.
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What's included?
2 Days instructor led course
Exam: Not Applicable
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Learning outcomes
At the end of this course you will be able to;
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Understand AI landscape, AI assistants, and prompt engineering
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Engage in practical AI applications through exercises and case studies
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Explore AI tools to optimise workflow and content generation
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Develop skills to navigate and leverage the AI ecosystem
Course outline
Day 1
Module 1 - The AI landscape
- Welcome to the AI Revolution
- Is this magic?
- Why learn about the fundamentals of AI?
- Jagged Frontier - Centaurs and Cyborgs
- The short history of AI
- Future(s) of AI
- What is AGI?
- What are you going to take away from the course?
- Basic concepts
- Basic building blocks
- Model
- Prompt
- Token
- Completions
- Exercise: OpenAI ChatGPT Introduction
- A simple question
- Other Chatbots
- ChatGPT competitors
- How do we compare models?
- AI in everyday applications
- AI in everyday applications
- Pragmatic AI
- The danger of any emerging technology
- The importance of critical thinking
- Demo - Midjourney
- Use cases
- Options
- Stylisation
- You can try this
- Behind the Technology
- Tuning your intuition
- Friendly introduction to neural networks
- General understanding and goals
- Input layer
- Inner layers, weights and output
- Behind the Technology - Large Language Models
- What's an LLM?
- Predicting the next word
- How to get these probabilities?
- Word n-grams
- Temperature
- Transformer architecture
- What's a GPT?
- ChatGPT is not just an LLM
- OpenAI Playground
- Behind the Tech - Image Generation
- Distorting Pictures: Introducing Noise
- Reversing the Blur: The Magic of Diffusion Models
- From Chaos to Clarity: AI's Power in Image Restoration
Module 2 - The AI Tooling landscape
- Reimagine consuming content
- Synthesising content more efficiently
- Exercise: ChatPDF
- What is ChatPDF?
- Query your document using natural language
- Gamma.app
- Co-design slide decks with AI
- NLP at it's best
- Everyday business tasks
- Microsoft 365 Copilot
- A whole new way to work
- Exercise: Microsoft Bing and Edge
- AI tools at your fingertips
- Google Sheets with AI
- AI plugins for Google Workspace
Module 3 - Legal questions
- Who owns what?
- Intellectual property
- Intellectual property regarding AI
- Who owns a model?
- Who owns generated data?
Module 4 - Prompt Engineering Fundamentals
- Introduction
- What's a prompt?
- Example of a prompt
- How and why prompt engineering works?
- Prompt-engineers and AI-Whisperers
- Fundamentals
- The 5 rules for prompting
- Role - who am I?
- The importance of specifying a role
- Context - what are we doing?
- Input - what's the data?
- Output - what do you expect?
- Restrictions - how should I do it?
- Scope - break it down
- Exercise: Dissecting a prompt
- Dissect the following prompt
- Exercise: Writing a simple prompt
- A prompt for summarising news
- Exercise: Write hierarchical prompts
- Prompting for a webpage
- Fundamentals summarised
- The 5 rules for prompting
Day 2
Module 5 Prompt Engineering
- Behind the Technology - Limitations Today
- Context management
- Performance
- Trustfulness and Reliability
- Exercise: OpenAI ChatGPT Limitations
- Hallucinations - lying with confidence
- Making typical mistakes
- ChatGPT Plugins
- What are ChatGPT Plugins?
- Browsing the web
- Chat with documents
- Trip planning with ChatGPT
- There's more
- Intermediate techniques
- How these techniques fit in the big picture
- Exercise: Classifying transactions
- Classifying transactions
- Potential solutions
- Intermediate techniques - Multi-shot prompting
- 0-shot prompting
- 1-shot prompting
- Multi-shot prompting
- Exercise: Brainstorm presentation title
- Brainstorm presentation title
- Intermediate techniques - Multiple choice prompting
- Multiple choice prompting
- Tips for effective multiple choice prompts
- Exercise: Create tagline for a new shop
- Create tagline for a new shop
- Potential solutions
- Intermediate techniques – Reasoning
- Reasoning prompt
- Enhanced reasoning
- Exercise: Taming the creativity
- Taming the creativity
- Intermediate techniques – Rating
- Rating
- Tips on getting meaningful scores
- Exercise: Double checking answers
- Double checking answers
- Intermediate techniques - Self reflection
- Self reflection
- Self reflection best practices
- Advanced techniques
- Advanced techniques - Prompt compression
- What is prompt compression?
- Compressing a prompt
- Decompressing
- Notes on compression
- Exercise: Prompt Compression
- Unlock the Secret Message with ChatGPT
- Advanced techniques - Meta prompting
- What is Meta prompting?
- Chain of Density - Advanced techniques
- What is Chain of Density prompting?
- Chain of Density research
- Exercise: Chain of Density
- Summarise an article with Chain of Density
Module 6 - Real-world use-cases
- Everyday examples
- Email Writing
- Analyse data with Advanced Data Analysis
- Voice2Text use case
- Translation
Module 7 – Outlook
- Outlook
- What's coming in the short-term
- AI's impact on organisations and businesses
- AI's impact on societies
- AI's impact on humanity
- Human Compatible by Stuart Russell
- Your imagination is the limit
Module 8 – Summary
- Fundamentals summarised
- The 5 rules for prompting
- Intermediate techniques summarised
- Intermediate techniques summarised
- Advanced techniques summarised
- Advanced techniques summarised
- ChatGPT Plugins summarised
- ChatGPT Plugins summarised
- AI tools summarised
- AI tools summarised
- Summary of the summary by ChatGPT
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