Yes, AI means Artificial Intelligence, if you have been on the internet or read a newspaper lately I am pretty sure we are all aware it exists.
It is a widely wildly broad topic.
- it can mean one experience at the user level using Microsoft Copilot
- another total different experience creating LLMs at the organization level (the heavy work) and
- another different experience creating agents at the app development level using AWS products, Microsoft products, etc..
- Most popular is Generative AI, where often when internet users refer to AI, they mean Generative AI, which is simply the ability of agents to produce(generate, generative) New and Creative content after reading through Large Language Models (LLMs). It is distinct from search engines which find pre-existing content and point you to it, in with searching nothing new is generated.
- And in the do re mi fa so la ti of AI, there is Reactive Machine AI as “do” with a computer beating a chess master by processing future possible outcomes but has no memories that has been around since the 1970’s to “ti” as basically Skynet from Terminator movies at Self-Aware AI coming next decade, so you probably want to take that big vacation sooner than later. Most of this decade’s excitement is Limited Memory AI which contains Generative AI and separately “driving cars”. LMAI can use real time information, driving cars, to make decisions. Or LMAI when Generative AI ChatGPT can use present and “some past” to predict the next word, phrase or visual element within the content it’s generating.
Let us get some training !!!
Microsoft AI Skills Fest taking place April 8 - May 28, 2025 FIFTY DAYS OF AI
https://aiskillsfest.event.microsoft.com/
Massive number of classes and webinars, fifty days, from every angle, maybe you need to improve your prompts, it is how you are asking not the back end intelligence. Maybe your LLM choices and population of LLM needs improving. Bad data only leads to bad recommendations. How to mix in hard coding, to have certain returns responses be specific, you want to guide answers to recommend your products. Maybe your agents need improving. Some classes are high level, some are very targeted to improvements to a very narrow thing.The non-interactive presentations also posted to Youtube’s Microsoft Learn for later viewing.
AWS Innovate Generative AI + Data in March 2025. Attended an all day zoom webinar in one hour presentations, good recommendations on it's all about your data models, A fast and easy way to build applications with AWS App Studio, was a good presentation. Helpful tips.I am taking a 7 week course "AI with Python", where you go through all the learning of what AI is, graph search algorithms, classification, optimization, machine learning, large language models LLMs and have homework using Python programming (the hands on piece).
www.edx.org/learn/harvard-university-artificial-intelligence-with-python General Youtube Channel.I decide to spend approximately 7 weeks or 70 hours in X weeks, however time management works out on a formalized classroom on AI to bring more of typical college classroom approach in addition to the AWS and Microsoft events.
Harvard University Cambridge Mass converted many in-person courses to online, using edx platform as a distributer, to allow us, the general public to take courses on certificate or audit.
I decided I wanted to learn AI while doing workshops in Python Programming in support of learning AI, that would be a good step by step foundational approach .
At a general level, independent of AI, I like to stay fresh with my Ruby and Python Programming, as bash, ruby and python are my “computer languages” in the classic sense.
I decided in support of my concentration on AI with Python I would link to a Python Class as a refresher. According to surveys, Ruby is around 7 and Python around 1 rank for popularity in usage for AI. Lisp and Prolog survey around 3, though at the moment, I am not going to include them in my efforts at present, though I have positive memories of using Prolog the job before my last job as a different object-oriented language. Python and Ruby will be sufficient. General Python Class. The code space and container for class is a quick way to jump in, allowing me to use any portable computer that may not have the IDE or editor they are fond of using Visual Studio Code by using the professor created code space.