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  AI for professionals

  by Clement Levallois

  Resources to use generative AI in a professional context



  Slide decks, blog posts and other resources for professionals and business students.

  Designed by Clement Levallois.

  This content is licensed under CC BY 4.0, with cited or linked content subject to their respective licenses.


  1. The meaning of ChatGPT and generative AI


        📢 6 visions for generative AI
        a discussion of prominent viewpoints on generative AI in Oct 2023.
        ☢️ is ChatGPT AGI?
        written in Sept 2023, in reaction to the flux of 'chatgpt is not AGI' arguments.
        💭 the significance of ChatGPT
        an appraisal of ChatGPT, 30 days after its release (Dec 2022). also available in French.
        🛥️ ️seven reasons why you are (already) missing the AI boat
        A blog post (Nov 2023) by Philippe Silberzahn, professor of strategy at emlyon business school. Also available in French.
        🏹️ AI: Your next competitor will be a centaur
        A blog post (Jan 2018) by Philippe Silberzahn, professor of strategy at emlyon business school. Also available in French.


  2. Slide decks on AI for professionals

    with speaker notes 👨‍🏫: these notes are visible when you open the slides from a laptop, not on mobile.

        📚 'Principles of generative AI'
        Defining large language models in relation to other types of machine learning and AI.
        📱 'Landscape of business apps leveraging gen AI'
        Categorizing gpt-powered business apps, and evaluating the value they create.
        🖋️ 'How to prompt'
        Recommendations to obtain effective results.
        ⛑️ 'AI and ethics'
        Guidelines to diagnose and act on the harm AI can cause.
        🌊 'Digital transformation in four waves'
        'Digital transformation' encompasses a variety of business cases, each with different challenges.
        🤝 'Platforms: focus on an impactful type of digital transformation'
        Platformization is not about leveraging digital techs to create more value, along the usual lines. It involves a complete turn around of the business model.
        🗂️ 'AI for professionals: the full deck of slides'
        The entire deck. 240+ slides, which are extended on a regular basis.


  3. Train in gen AI: techniques & cases


        🚀 case study: Pieter Levels
        The story of Pieter Levels (@levelsio) building interior.ai then photoai.com with gen AI in 2022-23, documented in 60+ slides.
        💡 Business cases using gen AI
        Very simple toy exercises to get started on using prompts in a professional context.
        📝 Exams in the age of ChatGPT
        How to make room for chatgpt in class and in exams, without compromising.
        🤖 Tech explainer chatbot
        A custom chatbot created with OpenAI, fine-tuned on the content on my lecture materials. It is meant to serve as a teaching assistant to students. However the access is currently limited to GPT+ subscribers.
        🖽 DDBM: using canvases for value creation with data and AI
        10 canvases in PowerPoint to guide a team from the definition of strategic objectives to the design of a data-driven project contributing to achieving these goals. Co-designed with Guillaume Lecuyer.


    Key people to follow


      For your convenience, all these profiles are gathered in this list on Twitter / X. Just follow the list to follow all the profiles.
      Twitter remains a forum where all (but 3) of the persons listed below post or cross-post frequently. Yet, I fully acknowledge that some or many of them do not wish to associate with Twitter. For this reason for each profile, clicking on their portrait leads to another meaningful site or platform.



          Sam Altman

          CEO OpenAI 💻

          Azeem Azhar

          AI • hardware • energy • economy • geopolitics • climate change • business 💻

          Jasmijn Bastings

          ML interpretability & Gender-fair AI 💻

          Sinead Bovell

          Futurist | AI | Technology | Culture | Explainers you can understand | Interviews 💻

          Joyann Boyce

          Detecting bias in marketing 💻

          Ellen Broad

          Data, AI ethics, board games, cybernetics. 💻

          Joy Buolamwini

          Founder Algorithmic Justice League, Author of 'Unmasking AI' 💻

          Antonio Casilli

          Sociologist studying digital platform labor and more. 💻

          Emily Chang

          Host and executive producer of 'The Circuit', a Bloomberg Originals series that goes behind the scenes with founders, influencers and innovators. 💻

          Lynn Cherny

          Data science, NLP, AI for creativity & story; science fiction, games. 💻

          Rowan Cheung

          Sharing the latest developments in the world of artificial intelligence. 💻

          Kate Crawford

          Scholar of artificial intelligence and its impacts ; produces art installations and visual investigations. 💻

          Laurence Devillers

          Research on chatbots, affective robots. Posts mainly in French 🇫🇷. 💻

          Clement Delangue

          Co-founder & CEO @HuggingFace 🤗 💻

          Benedict Evans

          Independent analyst who spent 20 years analysing mobile, media and technology, and worked in equity research, strategy, consulting and venture capital. 💻

          Alain Goudey

          Education, disruptive techs, AI & sound design. Posts mainly in French 🇫🇷. 💻

          Erin Griffith

          New York Times writer covering start-ups and venture capital 💻

          Paul Graham

          Co-founder Y Combinator, investor, business essay writer 💻

          Karen Hao

          AI reporter 💻

          Kashmir Hill

          Author of the new book YOUR FACE BELONGS TO US 💻

          Sara Hooker

          ML Efficiency at scale, LLMs, @trustworthy_ml 💻

          Luiza Jarovsky

          Privacy and AI 💻

          Andrej Karpathy

          Building @EurekaLabsAI. Previously Director of AI @Tesla, founding team @OpenAI 💻

          Kristoph

          e/acc. ai, news, media. entertainment. technology. politics. snark. 💻

          Pierre-Carl Langlais

          LLM for the commons, Open science, Wikipedia 💻

          Yann LeCun

          Chief AI Scientist at Meta. Researcher in AI, Machine Learning, Robotics, etc. 💻

          Pieter Levels

          Solo web app dev, turned to gen AI in 2022 💻

          Fei-Fei Li

          Researcher #AI #computervision #ML AI+healthcare 💻

          Hilary Mason

          Simply: I make beautiful things with data. 💻

          Andrew McAfee

          Co-founder and co-director of MIT’s Initiative on the Digital Economy 💻

          Margaret Mitchell

          Interdisciplinary researcher focused on shaping AI towards long-term positive goals. ML & Ethics. 💻

          Ethan Mollick

          Professor of management at Wharton 💻

          Evgeny Morozov

          Researcher and intellectual who studies political and social implications of digital technology. 💻

          Andrew Ng

          Co-Founder of Coursera. Former head of Baidu AI Group/Google Brain. 💻

          Ayoola Olafenwa

          Programmer who works on machine learning, AI and builds android applications. 💻

          Olafenwa John Ishola

          Scientist at Microsoft Research 💻

          Cathy O'Neil

          Mathematician, data scientist, and author. 💻

          Shira Ovide

          I write The Tech Friend newsletter at The Washington Post 💻

          Margherita Pagani

          Professor in business, AI and marketing 💻

          Stefano Puntoni

          Professor and behavioral scientist, talks about #decisionmaking, #brandmanagement, #behavioralscience, and AI 💻

          Bindu Reddy

          Using Gen AI to build Applied AI and LLM agents and systems at scale 💻

          Kim Rees

          Tech & Design Executive integrating AI and data solutions 💻

          Brian Roemmele

          Wide interests, including AI. 💻

          Elvis Saravia

          Building with LLMs, RAG, and AI Agents 💻

          Robert Scoble

          Tech industry color commentator since 1993. New AI podcast: 'Unaligned' 💻

          Clara Shih

          Head of Business AI at Meta. Talks about #ai, #startups, #leadership, #mentorship, and #socialselling 💻

          Philippe Silberzahn

          Disruptive innovation, entrepreneurship and organizational transformation. Writes also in French 🇫🇷. 💻

          Mustafa Suleyman

          Co-founder of DeepMind, author "The Coming Wave" 💻

          Mathias Vermeulen

          Digital services act, content regulation, disinformation, privacy, algo audit. 💻

          Amelia Wattenberger

          design, LLMs, web dev, data viz, tools for thought 💻

          Laura Weidinger

          AI ethics, measuring and evaluating AI, philosophy, psychology 💻

          Meredith Whittaker

          President of @signalapp. Privacy, open source, worker's rights. Social implications of AI and related techs. 💻

          Simon Willison

          Open source dev building tools to help journalists, archivists, librarians and others analyze, explore and publish their data. 💻

          Cecilia Ziniti

          Tech and legal exec 💻

    Discover other resources: my blog, nocodefunctions.com, slidelang, thesis methodology, tutorials for gephi, umibench.

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