Engaging with AI

This seminar will encourage you to engage with AI tools now to understand what they can do, spot risks, and explore how this rapidly evolving technology will impact you, your community, and the wider world. We’ll kick things off by breaking down the basics—things like algorithms, AI, AGI, bias, alignment, hallucinations, hacks, guardrails, training sets, prompts, neural networks, machine learning, and deepfakes. Then we will use several AI tools to explore their utilities and limitations. Reading: No required reading. A list of suggested further reading will be provided. Participants should bring an internet-access device such as a tablet, iPad, smart phone, or laptop to class. 

Reading: No required reading. A list of suggested further reading will be provided. Participants should bring an internet-access device such as a tablet, iPad, smart phone, or laptop to class. 

Bill Davenport spent 42 years with The Travelers. During that time, he experienced how new technologies–calculators, mainframe computers, PCs, e-Mail, VoiceMail, and the Internet reshaped the company and his own skills. He is now trying to understand how AI is transforming everything.