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ALX AiCE - AI Career Essentials

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ALX AiCE - AI Career Essentials

The document discusses how AI is impacting various industries and personal lives. It provides examples of how AI is used in healthcare for early cancer detection and in finance for fraud detection. It also lists several AI tools that can be used personally for tasks like writing, news, fitness and language learning.

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Building Your AI Toolkit and Honing Your Intuition

AI in The Workplace

Clearly, there’s not just one way to think about AI’s role in the
workplace. It’s complicated. There are positive, neutral, and negative
aspects. It is worth taking a critical look at it. We know that AI can
create remarkable increases in efficiency and productivity. However,
with this comes challenges and ethical dilemmas.
Here are some ways AI is already impacting the workplaces:
 Advancement: AI drives innovation, personalized service,
advanced analytics and provides data that can lead to more
effective and creative problem-solving.
 Enable Creative Work: AI enables people to focus on strategic,
creative, and interpersonal tasks rather than “rote” or repetitive
tasks.
 New Career Paths: The development of AI has led to jobs in AI
ethics, data science, and systems management. It also has
changed the day-to-day activities in many different jobs.
 Healthcare: AI has improved healthcare through better, earlier
diagnostics and more personalized medicine. The trend on this is
likely to continue.
Because AI automates routine and predictable tasks, there’s an
undeniable impact on job security for jobs whose focus is on routine
and predictable tasks, and this leads to concerns over potential job
displacement.
The concern about biases in AI decision-making also cannot be
understated, as there are significant ethical questions about fairness
and transparency in AI-driven processes.
As you reflect on AI’s impact on your professional life, it’s important to
have an open mind, but also with a critical mind. Consider how AI
might influence and improve your current or future career. You should
also strive to engage with AI’s ethical dimensions; consider how AI will
change your work and how it should be used responsibly and
equitably. Hiding from these issues won’t make them go away. We
want you to be prepared to engage with them skilfully!

The Big Picture: Case Studies 1

To get a better idea of how AI is currently changing work, let’s start


with the big picture: how is AI reshaping specific key industries around
the world.
Healthcare - AI for Early Diagnosis:
🪄 AI is revolutionizing cancer detection at ETH Zurich. They found that
changes in blood cell nuclei can indicate tumours. Now, here is the
interesting part: using AI, they distinguished between healthy
individuals and cancer patients with about 85% accuracy. They even
identified tumour types like melanoma or glioma, a first in this field!
Normally, detecting cancer early is hard, but this team analyzed
lymphocytes and monocytes from simple blood samples, betting these
cells react to tumour-released substances.

Finance - AI in Fraud Detection:


🪄 AI can now detect fraud! DataDome, a company leveraging AI and
machine learning, is revolutionising fraud detection. Their system isn’t
just fast; it learns from past data to adapt and tackle new threats, a
feat traditional software can’t match. With its dynamic approach,
DataDome significantly reduces false positives without affecting user
experience. This is a game-changer for e-commerce sites plagued with
issues like card fraud, fake accounts, and credential stuffing.
Some AI Tools For Personal Use

Now that you have a better understanding of the big picture let’s look
at some personal applications of AI.
Here are 10 ways you might want to integrate AI into your workflow
and day-to-day activities.
Smart Personal Assistants: Using voice-activated assistants like Siri,
Alexa, or Google Assistant for scheduling appointments, setting
reminders, and managing daily tasks.
Email Management Tools: Using AI-powered tools like Astro or
Notion AI to automatically sort emails, highlight important messages,
and schedule replies, enhancing email productivity.
Automated Financial Planning: Using AI-driven apps like Mint or
PocketGuard for personal budgeting and financial management,
including tracking expenses and optimising savings.
Fitness and Health: Using AI-powered fitness apps like Freeletics or
Fitbod for personalised workout plans and nutrition advice based on
individual health data and goals.
Language Learning Applications: AI-based language learning
platforms like Duolingo or Babbel, which adapt to users’ learning pace
and style, make language learning more efficient.
AI for Personalized News and Content: Using AI-curated news apps
like Flipboard or Feedly that learn user preferences over time to deliver
customised news and content feeds.
AI-Powered Writing and Grammar Tools: Using AI writing assistants
like Grammarly or Hemmingway to enhance writing quality, grammar,
and style in professional and personal communications.
Creating Beautiful Presentations and Documents: Use graphic
design plug-and-play tools like Canva or Monday to create compelling
visual assets for your next presentation or paper.
Making art to hang in your space: Using AI-powered fine art tools
like Midjourney or Dall.E to create art to your taste only using words.
Making animated videos: Using AI tools like Pica, Runway or steve.ai
to create animated videos for entertainment or work.

Fun Activity: Try Runway AI

 It’s time to roll up your sleeves and dive into an AI tool


adventure! You may be familiar with AI tools like ChatGPT, Bing,
and Bard — and that’s awesome! But now, it’s time to explore a
different kind of AI: Runway. This fantastic tool is a powerhouse
for various tasks, and you will start with Text to Image. (Please
feel free to explore further!)
 Here are some things Runway can do with ease:
 - Text to Image
 - Image to Image
 - Infinite Image
 - Inpainting
 - Text to Speech
 And many other more magical features.

 Activity Instruction
 Ready for some fun? Follow the steps below:
 Step 1: Go to Runway ML and click ‘Try Runway for Free.’
 Step 2: Find the ‘Text to Image’ feature.
 Step 3: Choose your desired aspect ratio, resolution, style, and
the number of images you’d like to create.
 Step 4: Get creative with your prompts to tell the AI what to
generate. (You will learn more about prompt engineering later in
the course).
 Need some inspiration? Here are some prompt examples:
 Create an image showing a man standing at the top of a cliff, with
the northern light above.
 Create an image showing the northern light above an African
village, with kids playing around a fire.
 Create an image of a young professional working in a tech space.
 Step 5: Download your favourite image and share it with your
Squad on the portal.
 Step 6: Go to your Milestone #1 Worksheet and complete the
activity in Step 1

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