W1 1 Introduction to generative AI

welcome to generative AI for everyone since the release of chat gbt AI specifically journ of AI has caught the attention of many individuals corporations and governments it is a very disruptive technology that's already changing how many people learn and work many developers think that gen VII will Empower many people and lead to productivity gains and also make a significant contribution to Global economic growth but there could be downsides as well such it's job loss or worse that some people worry about in this course you learn what generative AI is what it can and cannot do and also how to use it in your own work or business because genes of AI is so new there is still a lot of misinformation out there and so in this course I hope to convey an accurate non-technical understanding of what it really is it also work of you to think through how you can best make you use of this technology this course does not assume any technical or AI background and is designed to be useful to anyone in business science engineering the humanities arts or other sectors so that let's dive in gen AI had caught the mainstream attention starting around November 2022 when openi released CH GPT and its momentum has continued unabated according to me it could add two .6 to 4.4 trillion US dollar annually to the economy government sex estimates it could raise Global GDP by 7% in the next decade and a study by openi and upen estimates that it could impact 10% of the work or task carried out daily by over 80% of workers in the United States the same study also estimates that there is a 20% of workers whose work or task is more than than 50% impacted by generative Ai and so studies like these lead to hopes for tremendous productivity gain as well as worries about job loss through automation what is generative AI this term refers to AI or artificial intelligence systems that can produce high quality content specifically text images and audio one of the best known generative AI or geni systems is open eyes CH GP which can follow instructions to carry out tasks like write three captions for social media post about a new line of su glasses for robots and have it generate a variety of creative outputs and many users are familiar with websites or direct consumer applications that can generate text like this other examples include bod which is offered by Google as well as Bing chat offered by Microsoft but there are now many companies that're offering user interfaces that let you type in some text called a prompt and will generate a response but beyond these consumer applications there's one other application of generative AI that I think may turn out to be even more impactful in the long term which is the use of generative AI as a developer tool AI is already pervasive in our lives and many of us use it dozens of times a day or more without even thinking about it every time you do a web search on Google or Bing that's AI every time you use your credit cards there's probably an AI checking if it really is you using your credit cards or every time you go to a website like Amazon or Netflix and the recommends products or movies to you that's AI but many AI systems have been complex and expensive to build and gent of AI is making many AI applications much easier to build and this means that the number and variety of AI product offerings is blossoming because it's becoming much cheaper to build certain applications compared to before so in this course one of the themes we'll touch on a few times as well will be how gen of AI may allow your business to much more inexpensively build very valuable AI applications and you learn best practices for identifying and exploring whether or not such applications might be useful for a given business I've described gen of AI as generating text images and audio and of these three types of contents the biggest impact so far has been on text generation but it can also generate images where given instructions a different type of prompt it can generate beautiful images like this one or even a fer realistic image like this genes AI can also generate audio for example here is a voice clone of me hi on an AI generated voice clone of Andrew Andrew never actually said these words Isn't that cool and you can also put audio together with uh image or even video generation to create a video clone of me like this hi I'm a video clone of Andrew it's nice to meet you so there's a lot going on in generative Ai and this is an exciting and disruptive technology that I'm confident you will find useful in your work in this course during the first week we'll go through how gen of AI technology actually works and specifically what it can and cannot do and you also see a variety of common use cases that I hope will help spark your creativity to how you may use use it to create value in your life or your work in the second week we'll discuss generative AI projects specifically how to identify useful generative AI applications as well as best practices for how to go about building well and we'll take a deeper dive into the range of Technology options for building a variety of valuable projects in the final week we will zoom out Beyond a single project to look at how ative AI will impact businesses as well as Society at large we'll look at some best practices for how teams for company can take advantage of gen of AI and also take a look at AI risks and how to make sure that what we do with AI is responsible and benefits people I'm excited to dive into this material with you and so of that let's go on to the next video where we'll go through a non-technical description of how gentle fi technology actually works I'll see you in the next video