Artificial Intelligence for Non-Technical People
CPD Hours: 4 |
Overview:
This course aims to provide finance professionals with a foundational understanding of Machine Learning (ML), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Chat GPT and how they are being applied and used today. Participants will gain insights into how these technologies can be leveraged and understand their potential impact overall.
Course Content:
In this course, you will gain knowledge about the following topics:
- Introduction to Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
- Overview of Machine Learning and AI.
- Key concepts: supervised learning, unsupervised learning, Large Language Models and reinforcement learning.
- Real-world applications of ML and AI.
- Basics of Machine Learning
- Understanding data: features, labels, and datasets.
- Types of machine learning algorithms: regression, classification, and clustering.
- Model training and evaluation.
- Case studies of ML applications in finance.
- Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
- Overview of AI and its subsets.
- Neural networks and deep learning.
- AI applications.
- Ethical considerations in AI.
- Chat GPT and Natural Language Processing
- Introduction to Chat GPT and its capabilities.
- How Chat GPT is trained and generates responses.
- Use cases customer support, chatbots, and automated document analysis.
- Hands-on demonstration of Chat GPT applications.
- Implementing ML, AI, and ChatGPT
- Challenges and considerations for implementation.
- Collaboration between non-IT and IT teams.
- Q&A and discussion.
- Conclusion and Next Steps
- Recap of key concepts.
- Resources for further learning.
- Actionable steps for incorporating ML, AI, and Chat GPT in finance roles.
- Course feedback and evaluation.
Learning Objectives:
By the end of this course, you'll learn:
- What is AI and LLMs, how is it different from machine learning?
- What are use cases where it can be applied.
- Why is AI different from other technologies?
- What are some of the ethical concerns of AI?
Who Will Benefit:
This course is designed for financial professionals with a general interest, and for CFO’s and other leaders who are being asked to fund AI work.