Everyday AI: A Deep Dive x Beginner's Guide | Sree Sreenivasan
Sree Sreenivasan, the former Chief Digital Officer of NYC, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Columbia University, has taught his guide to AI course in 8 countries and 15 cities since 2023.
This workshop is not aimed at techies who are doing AI, but the rest of us, who are having AI done to us. It won't teach people how to create AI, but will help them use AI every day, understand it, the promise and the peril, and the ethical questions facing us all.
In this 3 hour workshop, we'll break down the fundamentals of AI, providing an understanding of this cutting-edge technology and cover the following:
Why it's useful: Discover the real-world applications and benefits that generative AI offers to various industries and sectors.
Why it's scary: We'll address the concerns and ethical considerations surrounding generative AI, shedding light on its potential pitfalls.
Use cases: Explore concrete examples of how generative AI is currently making an impact and shaping the future.
Live demo: Witness generative AI in action with a live demonstration that showcases its capabilities. Advanced prompt writing: Improve your prompt writing skills by looking at what works and what doesn't and some worthy new tips and tricks.
How it applies to our work: Understand how AI aligns with and can potentially enhance our mission and operations — and our industry.
Testimonials:
“A session with Sree cut through all the hype and misunderstanding of AI and provided some practical tools that I could put to immediate use.” — Joel Dreyfuss, former senior editor at Fortune magazine, after Sree’s Paris workshop.
"What an excellent class... thank you! Generative AI is an unbelievably exciting and terrifying subject. Looking forward to participating in future classes." — Jill Davison, global comms executive.
“Sree's generative AI workshop was an absolute game-changer! From the simple basics to mind-boggling practical applications, he covered it all. But what really impressed me how he tackled the ethical side of things.” — @ChantalTV, fashion producer in Paris
About Sree Sreenivasan
Sree Sreenivasan runs Digimentors, a digital, social and virtual events consulting company working with corporations, nonprofits, and executives around the world. He has served as Chief Digital Officer of New York City, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Columbia University (where he was a full-time professor of journalism for 20+ years).
Since 2022, he has served on the board of Nobel Prize Foundation Outreach. In 1994, he co-founded SAJA, the South Asian Journalists Association, and in 1999, ONA, the Online News Association.
In 2015, Fast Company named him one of the 100 most creative people in business and in 2010, he was named one of the 35 most influential people in social media by the Poynter Institute. In 2004, Newsweek named him one of the 20 most influential “young” South Asians in America, along with Kamala Harris, M. Night Shyamalan and Norah Jones. In 2014, he was named world's most influential CDO by CDO Club. In 2012, he was named to a seed list of the top 100 journalists of the previous century by Unity: Journalists of Color.
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