Introduction to AI Course
Duration
7 hours (usually 1 day including breaks)
Requirements
This is an introductory course and no prerequisite knowledge is required.
Overview
Learning about AI is crucial because it’s transforming how we work, live, and solve problems across nearly every field. Here are some key reasons why understanding AI is so valuable:
- Staying Competitive: Businesses today rely on AI to gain insights, improve efficiency, and make smarter decisions. Knowledge of AI helps individuals and teams stay competitive, anticipate changes, and respond quickly to new trends.
- Improving Efficiency and Productivity: AI can automate repetitive tasks, streamline processes, and enable faster, data-driven decision-making. Learning about AI empowers people to leverage these tools effectively, saving time and resources.
- Expanding Job Opportunities: AI skills are in high demand across industries. Understanding AI basics can open new career paths, make professionals more versatile, and enhance their value in the workforce.
- Driving Innovation: AI is the foundation for many modern innovations, from personalized medicine to smart cities. Knowledge of AI encourages creativity and enables people to contribute to or lead in developing these innovations.
- Ethical and Social Awareness: AI raises important ethical questions about privacy, bias, and fairness. Learning about AI helps individuals make informed decisions, advocate for responsible use, and understand its social impact.
Audience:
Almost everyone can benefit from learning about AI, as it’s impacting a wide range of fields and industries. Here are some specific groups who should consider learning about AI:
- Business Leaders and Managers: Understanding AI helps leaders make strategic decisions, improve processes, and identify new opportunities. It also enables them to assess risks and guide their teams in implementing AI responsibly.
- Tech Professionals: For software developers, data scientists, and IT professionals, AI is a critical skill that enhances their ability to create intelligent applications, analyze data, and innovate in their fields.
- Educators: Teachers and educators who understand AI can prepare students for the future, integrate AI-related topics into curricula, and help students navigate the ethical and societal impacts of these technologies.
- Healthcare Workers: AI is revolutionizing healthcare with tools for diagnostics, personalized treatments, and patient care. Doctors, nurses, and medical researchers can benefit from understanding AI's capabilities and limitations to work alongside these tools effectively.
- Marketing and Sales Professionals: AI is transforming customer insights, personalization, and ad targeting. Marketers and sales teams who understand AI can create more relevant, data-driven campaigns and improve customer experiences.
- Human Resources and Talent Acquisition: AI can streamline recruitment, identify talent, and support diversity efforts. HR professionals who understand AI can use these tools responsibly and manage AI’s impact on the workforce.
- General Public: Even people outside of tech-related careers benefit from basic AI literacy. It allows individuals to make informed decisions, understand how AI affects privacy and security, and advocate for ethical standards in its development.
Course Outline
- What is Artificial Intelligence - In this module, we’ll define artificial intelligence, explore key terms and technologies in AI, and discuss some of their limitations and challenges.
- Machine Learning - This module focusses on how machines make these fast, accurate, consistent decisions with the data they are presented through machine learning techniques.
- Generative AI - In this module, the focus is on generative AI and its uses, with a focus on ChatGPT - a massively popular AI platform - we will show how it can make life so much easier
- Application of AI - So many industries, sectors, occupations and walks of life stand to gain by the successful adoption of AI and this module will outline some key applications of AI, some that you may already know of, others you may not
- Ethical and practical AI considerations - There is an ethical angle when we delegate decision making to machines and this modules explores that subject in depth, as well as considering the practical impact on our lives, on organisations and on society at large
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