Bringing AI into everyday work

Summary

Artificial intelligence is freely available now and has found its way into our working lives in all sorts of ways. That is exactly what makes the field hard to see through. Still, the experts agree: holding back out of fear will put you at a disadvantage before long. The thing is to dare. But using these systems has to be learned. A quick search is enough to show they are far from infallible — where their information comes from, and what they do with it, deserves a critical eye. Handling the tools themselves also has to be learned: one question is not like another. A new skill is needed. Just as we once learned to search well, we now have to learn to prompt well: to know how, and with what instructions, to feed an AI so that what comes back is worth having.

This hands-on workshop introduces participants to the world of artificial intelligence. It builds a basic understanding of how AI models work, so that you can then act with confidence in ChatGPT and the rest — and question, correct and analyse what they produce. That skill, which cuts across every field, is what lets you fit AI into your own working day safely and well. The focus lies on the theoretical groundwork, on explicit use cases and, above all, on trying things out yourself.

Learning objectives

After completing the course you will be able to …

• you understand how artificial intelligence works and what kinds of model there are
• you know where the models reach their limits and what you yourself can do about it
• you can say what prompt engineering is and write prompts that are pointed and useful
• you know which parts of your own working day AI could improve
• you understand what precautions and agreements are needed to protect different kinds of data and content

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