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Follow Allie K. Miller on LinkedIn to keep up with AI news and releases. Allie offers information at the optimal altitude and volume. She shares example use cases, some of which may be use cases in her own professional and personal life. Allie’s information helps you stay informed of AI change without having to spend the large amount of time required to keep up with these things yourself.
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- Use this learning companion pdf. The boxes in the pdf are clickable with embedded links to the corresponding resource. Columns - from left to right - represent executive to technical. Rows – from top to bottom - represent increasing depth of knowledge. You should go to the main site to acquire a refreshed version of the pdf about every 2 to 3 months (the pdf content is routinely updated).
- You must learn about impacts, implications, and risks associated with AI prior to using AI, learning about AI tools, model training, etc. The following LinkedIn (+Microsoft) courses are an excellent starting point to a learning journey of responsible AI that must never end:
Ethics in the Age of Generative AI
Career Essentials in Generative AI by Microsoft and LinkedIn
- Learn by Microsoft is a valuable resource for learning AI among many other technical categories. Much of the content revolves around real world applications and currently available tools versus theory and concepts:
experiment with generative tools
- First step: Adopt an AI-First Mindset (ref: Allie K. Miller "Getting started with AI-first" LinkedIn course). Every time you want to search for something - anything - use a generative AI tool first. We are used to searching in terms of '7 words or less' and only for things we think will have a high probability of having some sort of result(s) returned. Generative AI is different and so we must think differently. Instead - think of using sentences or concepts versus '7 words or less' in your generative AI tool. Search for things you never have thought about searching for before or never thought you would get a good search result for.
- Second step: Start to realize that generative AI is not a search engine. It is a creation engine that 'generates' responses to your input (prompts). With that in mind, after practicing 'searching in AI first' - start prompting AI tools for more than just search results. Prompt it to generate output for things that are beyond just searching - things that are you currently not in the habit of asking about.
- Ethical and Safe Use: Validate and ethically use AI-generated content, especially in sensitive or high-stakes contexts. Protect your privacy by not entering in private or sensitive data into your prompts. Generally available generative AI tools are not private and therefore you must not enter private data.
- Starter generative AI tool list (by no means exhaustive)
ChatGPT - [ https://openai.com/ ]
Claude - [ https://www.anthropic.com/claude ]