Executive and Leadership Development in AI
Target audience: Senior leadership / C-suite level
Maximum participants: 20
How to be a good buyer of AI solutions (approx 3 hours)
- Strategic decision-making for technology -- the two types of strategy that make sense
- Finding commodity vendors vs finding startup partners
- What is everybody already doing, and what is safe to rely on?
- Evaluating and working with AI vendors: Warning signs of under-delivery and over-promising
- AI governance frameworks
The next 5 years (approx 3 hours)
- AI's current and future impact on jobs (5-year horizon)
- AI in 2029: Predictions and projections
- What jobs are going to be left?
- White-collar recession, blue-collar boom
- Impacts on land values and interest rates
Investment primer (approx 2 hours)
- Who are the main players and what is their exposure?
- What does the AI supply chain look like?
- Deglobalisation risks vs AGI potentials
- What does the Chinese mainland supply chain look like?
- How far behind are China/Japan/Europe/others?
For questions or inquiries, please email [email protected].
Organisational AI Enablement
Introduction to Generative AI
Target audience: Team leads and individual contributors
Topics covered (1 hour)
- Where GenAI helps
- Problems
- Capabilities: create, summarise, inspire, critique, educate, role-play, automate, translate, analyse, watch
- Speech and vision
- Managing and empowering staff to use AI
Prompt Engineering
Target audience: Team leads and individual contributors
Topics covered (1 hour)
- How GenAI systems are trained
- An intuition on how prompting works
- What is temperature, and what does it do
- Giving instructions versus assuming a role
- 7 different levels of expertise
- Problems: arithmetic, hallucination, thinking ahead, prompt injection
- Markdown, templates, registers and other magic tricks that do work
- Alignment, the refresh cycle, and why most other tricks don't work
- Getting around refusal
- How to get good at prompting
Ethics of AI
Target audience: Staff in governments and non-profits concerned with AI's impact on diverse communities.
Topics covered (1 hour)
- Accountability and responsibility
- Transparency and explainability
- Data privacy
- RLHF and where GenAI gets its moral sense from
- Prompting for fairness reading
- Environmental impact
- Hallucinations and explanations
- Issues when working in other languages
- Ethics of AI from different religions and perspectives
These courses are mostly tuned for users of OpenAI ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot. Versions for Gemini, Anthropic Claude, and local-run models are in development.
For questions or inquiries, please email [email protected].
Software Developer Upskilling in AI
Minimum Viable Software Developer for Text and Language
Target audience: Software developers (any level)
Topics covered (20 hours):
- Calling ChatGPT and Anthropic APIs
- Tool calling
- Retrieval augmented generation (RAG)
- Building information retrieval systems
- Handling different languages and scripts
- Generating audio with ElevenLabs
- Integrating Twilio for telephone bots
On-prem, On-device, On-budget
Target audience: Software developers with experience in OpenAI/Anthropic/Gemini APIs
Topics covered (20 hours):
- Common tasks in text and voice
- Using and running pre-existing models
- Fine-tuning existing models
- Model compression techniques
- Design principles for language applications
For questions or inquiries, please email [email protected].