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AI & Data Literacy

By : Bill Schmarzo
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Book Image

AI & Data Literacy

5 (1)
By: Bill Schmarzo

Overview of this book

AI is undoubtedly a game-changing tool with immense potential to improve human life. This book aims to empower you as a Citizen of Data Science, covering the privacy, ethics, and theoretical concepts you’ll need to exploit to thrive amid the current and future developments in the AI landscape. We'll explore AI's inner workings, user intent, and the critical role of the AI utility function while also briefly touching on statistics and prediction to build decision models that leverage AI and data for highly informed, more accurate, and less risky decisions. Additionally, we'll discuss how organizations of all sizes can leverage AI and data to engineer or create value. We'll establish why economies of learning are more powerful than the economies of scale in a digital-centric world. Ethics and personal/organizational empowerment in the context of AI will also be addressed. Lastly, we'll delve into ChatGPT and the role of Large Language Models (LLMs), preparing you for the growing importance of Generative AI. By the end of the book, you'll have a deeper understanding of AI and how best to leverage it and thrive alongside it.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
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Index

ChatGPT Changes Everything

“The Horror. The Horror.”

– Colonel Walter E. Kurtz (Marlon Brando), Apocalypse Now

During the writing of this book, a technological revolution exploded unto the scene with the advent of Generative AI (GenAI), ChatGPT, and Large Language Models (LLMs). These cutting-edge advancements brought to life the promises and fears surrounding AI, captivating the public’s imagination. The astounding popularity and rapid adoption of OpenAI’s ChatGPT were unimaginable. People marveled at its human-like ability to respond to a vast range of questions, unleashing their creativity as they sought ChatGPT’s assistance in crafting poems, love letters in the style of Romeo, legal briefs, and even blog posts.

However, amid the excitement, there was an undercurrent of trepidation fueled by popular movies like The Terminator, Eagle Eye, I, Robot, and The Matrix, which predicted ominous AI consequences. This impending...