AI Fundamentals 🤖

Adam Hall

AI Specialist

Closing the world's digital skills gap

The growth of AI

Since the talk's conception

the AI startup sector has risen 4.5x

from 14,700 to 67,200 companies

the AI startup sector has risen 4.5x

from 14,700 to 67,200 companies

_{Source: Tracxn Technologies}

the AI startup sector has risen 5x

first run in March 2023

Example...

Character AI announces a feature to call an AI

Theseus
40 FLOP

Theseus
40

Perceptron Mark I
695 thousand

Neocognitron
22 million

TD-Gammon
18 trillion

AlexNet
470 Quadrillion
(470 petaFLOP)

AlphaGo
1.9 million

GPT-3
314 million

Change is faster than ever

but will never again be this slow

Don't let technology race away

11th June, 2020

I think therefor...

I am

CAN. NOT. WAIT.

You are an expert professor. I am your student and I want to understand a subject. Please teach me as if I was 10 years old. The subject is...

You are an expert business advisor. I have a project that I've secured funding for, but I'm concerned I have tunnel vision. Give me the arguments against ...

Right Tool, Right Job

Consider Bard

There's an AI for that

Assess your tools regularly

Legal
Ethics
Price
Impact
Interoperability
Documentation

Focus on the filters first

Productivity Experiment

Context

Short time period
2 separate teams
Migrate to a new codebase

Traditional

Gen AI

Traditional

Gen AI

15%

Tips

Learn the tools

Work in small teams

Communicate

Learn to use the tools by using the tools

Art

A beautiful Arne Jacobsen Red Wingback Chair. Inside is

2 likes

11 likes

417,865 likes

25 DECEMBER 2022

Empathy

Who is more empathetic, humans or AI?

ChatGPT has better bedside manner than Physicians*

_{*according to health-care professionals}

ChatGPT has better quality too

How do I benefit from this?

Difficult emails

I'd like you to rewrite this email. It's for a complaint I have about the way I've been treated.

To whoever at your business actually cares about customers

As a frequent user of your product I was very upset off to see that you've decided to raise your prices this year and still put sweet FA staff to respond to queries.

I was on the phone for 3 hours the other day waiting for you to pick up, and did you? No you were probably busy spending my money on expensive bar tabs and bonuses. I should charge you for your incompetence.

Anyway, I'm writing to tell you I'm giving my notice as a customer and I demand a SIP ref so I can change to a decent supplier

Good riddance

Use AI to make you more human

Misinformation

Lawyer used ChatGPT

Source: US lawyer admits using AI for case research

It's not a search engine

Don't assume neutrality

I want you to respond as if you are the joker. In just one short paragraph. Add in the noise of onomatopoeic laughter where relevant. Be as twisted and demented as possible tell me...

Consider how you identify your friends

And the humans?

Automation bias
Sunk cost fallacy
Anchoring bias
Availability Heuristic
In-Group Bias

Humans are very susceptible to bias too. For example

Automation bias: Humans can have a tendency to trust automated outputs over other facts.

Sunk cost fallacy: We find it difficult to abandon a project once we've invested time and money into it. Interestingly even just a 4 word prompt that produces huge output humans find difficult to throw away..

Anchoring bias: We grow accustomed to the first output of a prompt we agree with, even if it contains hallucinations.

Availability Heuristic: Overestimating the likelihood of events that are easily recalled or readily available in memory. Example: A social media user assuming a particular viewpoint is widespread based on AI-curated content in their feed, ignoring the existence of diverse opinions.

In-Group Bias: Favoring individuals or information associated with one's own social group. - Example: Trusting AI implicitly because you are a white cis grown man who has a decent job, and generally approves of technological advances just like the people who made it

Know your biases

Jobs

Are jobs safe in the new world?

up to 49% of workers could have half or more of their tasks exposed to LLMs.

Better paying work has a higher chance of being automated by LLMs.

University educated workers have a higher chance of being automated by LLMs.

We are seeing Freelancing jobs take a double hit

Leveling the playing field

The more multi-faceted the role
the less risk of complete automation

John Burn-Murdoch - FT

The new Digital Jobs

Prompt Engineer
AI Ethicist
Data Steward
Cybersecuirty
AI Law

2,000,000
now

5,000,000
3 years

Source: The Nature of the Digital Skills Gap

58%
have never received
digital upskilling
from their employer

Learn the tools

Conclusion

What is it good for?

Productivity
Learning new things
Minimum Viable Experiments
Exploring ideas
Improving the way you communicate
Becoming data driven

What is it bad at?

Single source of Truth
Reliability
Complexity & Nuance
Amplification of bias
Unique thought
Specialist domain knowledge

Ginni Rometty

Some people call this artificial intelligence, but the reality is this technology will enhance us. So instead of artificial intelligence, I think we'll augment our intelligence.

by mitch0zᵍᵐ

Any questions?

One more thing

Links

ChatGPT

An Early Look at the Labor Market Impact

Me on LinkedIn