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