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Generative AI for Business Leaders
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Equip yourself to lead in the age of AI by understanding how to strategically implement generative AI within your business. This program provides practical insights into AI capabilities, limitations, and ethical considerations, helping you identify impactful use cases and make informed decisions about AI adoption. Learn to leverage AI tools to drive innovation, enhance customer experiences, and optimize operations while fostering a responsible AI approach that aligns with organizational goals and values.
Equip yourself to lead in the age of AI by understanding how to strategically implement generative AI within your business. This program provides practical insights into AI capabilities, limitations, and ethical considerations, helping you identify impactful use cases and make informed decisions about AI adoption. Learn to leverage AI tools to drive innovation, enhance customer experiences, and optimize operations while fostering a responsible AI approach that aligns with organizational goals and values.
Intermediate
3 weeks
Last Updated November 26, 2024
Prerequisites:
Intermediate
3 weeks
Last Updated November 26, 2024
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Course Lessons
Lesson 1
Introduction to Generative AI
This lesson provides the foundational knowledge needed about generative AI. From contextualizing GenAI within AI, to the processes and models used in GenAI systems, and finally use cases and benefits.
Lesson 2
How to Think about Generative AI from a Business Perspective
This lesson covers how to think about GenAI from a business perspective. You'll learn how GenAI can improve your business, the different approaches you can take, and its impacts and limitations.
Lesson 3
Launching Generative AI for your Business
In this lesson, you'll learn how to put GenAI into practice. You'll identify business areas that could be improved, create a roadmap for GenAI projects, and identify the core components necessary.
Lesson 4
Ensuring you Have the Right Human Capital for GenAI Adoption
Having the right people is essential to bringing GenAI to your business. This lesson will discuss key stakeholders, necessary roles and responsibilities, and organizational models that can be used.
Lesson 5
Process to Ready the Business for Generative AI
This lesson will discuss key elements of a GenAI strategy, responsible AI, risk assessments for GenAI projects, and the development process and management of GenAI projects.
Lesson 6
Platforms to Ready the Business for Generative AI
This lesson will cover the AI and ML architectures that supports GenAI solutions, the specific needs of GenAI projects, the significance of data, along with various partners for each step.
Lesson 7
Optional: "Generative AI: Savior or Saboteur of the Digital Workforce?"
Webinar Recording of instructor Ed Wiley and Udacity Founder Sebastian Thrun, "Generative AI: Savior or Saboteur of the Digital Workforce"
Lesson 8 • Project
Build a Generative AI Strategy with Project Roadmap
Now that you have completed all of the course material, it's time to put it all together in the project!
Taught By The Best

Ed Wiley, Ph.D.
AI Expert/Consultant at Ed Wiley Ventures, LLC
Dr. Ed Wiley has over 25 years of experience building, leading, and advising world-class machine learning, AI, and data science teams at companies at stages from startup to Fortune 50, holding titles such as CIO, CTO, and Chief Data Scientist. He currently serves as Chief Data and Analytics Officer for Opsis Health.
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