AI Fundamentals

AI Fundamentals

Learning how we can use AI to make work more fun

The 21st version of this talk

Since I first ran this talk

over 64,000 projects have been made

over 64,000 projects have been made

Example...

The 2025 AI for Humanity Report (Published Oct 1)

Things are moving fast

Adam Hall

Adam Hall

Adam Hall

Former Agile Coach

AI Principal at AND Digital Logo

The growth of AI

Theseus

Theseus

Perceptron Mark I

Perceptron Mark I

Neocognitron

Neocognitron

TD-Gammon

TD-Gammon

AlexNet

AlexNet

AlphaGo

AlphaGo

GPT-3

Change is faster than ever

but will never again be this slow

Don't let technology race away

Right Tool, Right Job

There's an AI for that

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

Empathy

Who is more empathetic, humans or AI?

ChatGPT has better bedside manner than Physicians*

ChatGPT has better bedside manner than Physicians*

*according to health-care professionals

ChatGPT has better quality too

How do I benefit from this?

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

Know your biases

Business Culture

Mindless prompting, not real work
Share the prompts, this is a shortcut for all
They're coming for our jobs
Help improve your job but focusing on what matters
The output is slop
Break it down and improve
There's too much to learn
Start small and work up

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

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