AI Literacy Training
- for Professional Development & EU Legislation Readiness
Whether you're looking to demonstrate compliance with emerging regulations, or simply to improve your workforce's AI awareness within a rapidly evolving commercial and technological landscape, we offer focused training in a straightforward package.Our transparently priced courses cover a carefully selected range of concerns that are likely to be most relevant to learners in specific professional roles. They are delivered by a highly qualified mentor, and include fully documented participation and individualised learner support.
Chapter 1 of the EU AI Act comes into effect in February 2025.Although it doesn't provide a definition, it requires that all personnel have a "sufficient level of AI literacy" based on their organization's use of AI and their role within it.
Our Courses
Our standard courses involve around 3 hours of core content plus an hour of Q&A, delivered by group video meeting, and are customised to maximise their relevance to your industry. They can be delivered in a single half-day session, or broken over multiple sessions.
Participants receive a personalised report summarizing the key learning points and confirming their participation, plus two weeks of one-to-one email support from the mentor for those who want to cement their learning with follow-up questions or dig a little deeper.
All courses cost £1250/€1490 per group, with a £195/€235 surcharge per learner, fully inclusive.
AI Essentials
Recommended for anybody, except AI developers and advanced users
Learning Objectives:
Be able to understand key terms used by those developing and working with AI.
Gain confidence in talking and thinking about AI systems.
Put general AI capabilities, risks, and opportunities into perspective.
Topics Include:
What are AI and Machine Learning?
The essential ingredients of an AI system
The different "flavours" of AI.
How LLMs like ChatGPT work.
Understanding what an AI system can and can't do.
Safe / responsible use of AI.
Where things are heading and how to keep up.
Risk, Safety & Regulation
Recommended for marketing, legal, strategy, and developers or procurers of AI-based systems
Learning Objectives:
Understand the different aspects of AI safety, and the challenges and techniques associated with safe design and use.
Learn to bypass hyperbole and assess AI capabilities in real terms.
Be able to ask the right questions of AI systems designers and vendors.
Topics Include:
Built-in assumptions & limitations by design.
Different types of inaccuracy and bias, and how to deal with them.
Transparency and explainability.
Privacy and data leakage.
Fitness-for-purpose and quality metrics.
LLM prompt injection attacks.
Satisfying the relevant regulations.
Mastering LLMs
Recommended for product designers, developers and LLM users
Learning Objectives:
Understand the capabilities and limitations of LLMs, as tools and software components.
Make the paradigm shift to "prompt oriented" and "agent oriented" thinking and systems design.
Hit the ground running with real-world case studies and example prompts & code.
Topics Include:
The different ways that LLMs function.
Strengths and limitations of LLMs.
Understanding and dealing with hallucinations.
General prompting strategies.
API integration.
Dynamic & advanced prompting strategies.
Agents & frameworks.
Meet Your Mentor
Justin Washtell-Blaise has 12 years of experience leading Artificial Intelligence and Data Science R&D initiatives within diverse regulated industry sectors, including finance, healthcare, and the environment.Justin holds a PhD in Statistical Natural Language Processing, a branch of AI which along with "Deep Learning" has culminated in the development of Large Language Models such as ChatGPT. He also holds a Bachelors degree in Environmental Science and a Masters in Multidisciplinary Informatics.
(Other comparably qualified trainers may be provided, depending on subject matter, learner requirements and demand.)
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