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AI & Data Literacy

By : Bill Schmarzo
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AI & Data Literacy

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

Summary

“You are what you measure, and you measure what you reward.”All this discussion about how we can build AI models that deliver meaningful, relevant, responsible, and ethical outcomes has gotten me thinking about the bigger societal ramifications.What would be the ramifications to society if we paid our leaders on the metrics that mattered most? How would that change the laws and regulations that got written, the actions that leadership took, and the decisions that government and social agencies made?Here’s an interesting point to contemplate: while we can go through this detailed process to create AI models that act ethically, what are we doing to solve the bigger problem of creating incentive systems to get humans to act ethically?That one is on all of us to become better humans…ADD