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week 8 X balt-4362 Takeaways from this class

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 My overall takeaways from this class are that AI is our future, and you can either hop on the trend in learning how to understand it or fall behind.  Every day we continue to see AI evolve as well as change so many industries with it. AI is seen in our everyday life in every way, shape, and form.  AI is already changing the landscape of multiple jobs, from taking over automation jobs to allow workers to have more time to be creative for the company. In the future, places will become more efficient the way they're being run. One of the major things I'm excited for is to see how AI is going to continue to change the healthcare industry for the better by helping them detect diseases earlier as well as having AI's in surgery. 

week 8 X balt-4362 "How is AI important in todays world"

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 AI is important in today's world because it has so many powers of so many systems we use every day. Things like Siri, solving financial algorithms to predict stock prices. The goal of AI is to make business and a consumer's life more simple.  Before AI used to be seen as a thing of the future, it is no longer that. It is in every part of our lives, from things in healthcare to the entertainment you consume every day. It is highly important that AI is used smartly and responsibly. AI can often help humans develop as well, so it should be seen as a tool not as an enemy.

Week 7 X Balt 4362 "How to make AI simple"

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 Making AI simple depends on whether you're trying to understand a certain topic or if you want to create a strong app. Either way, some sites you can use when you're starting a project using AI would be chat gpt, Google AutoML, and Teachable Machine. Using these will allow you to create your project all while learning how AI works. Keeping AI simple should be the overall goal because of how many great ideas it can generate, as well as how much it can help with so many other things. We should be viewing AI as a tool where we can enhance our potential as humans. It should be seen as a tool not an enemy.

Week 7 X Balt 4362 "Sites to create bots"

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The site you use to create bots all depends on what type of bot you want to create. Some bots that would be chat bots would be Botpress, ManyChat, and Chatfuel. If you're looking for bots that you personally want to customize, Replit, Glitch, and Google Cloud Functions. Depending on how detailed you want it to be, you might need code in some instances  Having a variety of websites where you can create so many different types of chat bots is exciting because you can decide how much effort you put into it. If you're building a website, you can often utilize so many types of bots within it. Utilizing bots can have so many benefits if you are able to get a good understanding of how to use them.

Week 6 X Balt 4362 "How could a AI become a resource in your career"

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 As this class goes on I'm learning more and more each week from so many people about the future of AI.  From the audience that isn't to familiar with it you hear worries because of what it can do to potential future jobs. AI if used correctly can not only help your career and future endeavors but you will almost begin to be ahead of the curve. The fact of the matter is that AI is the future and the sooner you learn how to use the tool the better it will be for you.  Some of the ways AI can become a resource in your career could come from a multitude of ways one of them being enhancing productivity and efficiency. This is one of those reasons you are going to hear a lot because of how true it is. Ai can often handle tasks that are repetitive allowing the employees to spend time working on another thing. If you are staying up to date with AI you are staying ahead of the curve this helps you become more valuable to an employer. 

Week 6 X Balt 4362 "What makes a good bot"

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 A good bot would often be described as helping the user meet his goal in a reliable and accurate way. With accuracy and reliability, we must ensure that the bot is providing correct information as well as information that is up with current events. Another big thing that helps bots make them successful is creating them in a way that allows them to create engaging conversations with the user. This allows the bot to have more of a human-like feeling. One of the biggest things that help bots be successful is the adaptability to learn as time goes on.  As time goes on and as improvements are made you ultimately begin to see the progress of the bot from the first time it was first introduced. I believe when constructing a good bot patience is one of the most important things to have because you are going to have so many trials and errors it comes down to the feedback you are receiving from users and for you to integrate and fix what needs to be fixed in the bot to ensure its ultim...

Week 5 X BALT 4362 "Why is this CEO bragging about replacing humans with AI" article

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 In the article posted this week, we encountered a Swedish company called Klarna which has been highly active in integrating AI to perform some of their regular business activities. According to them, they have saved around 10 million dollars by doing this. Some of the examples they presented in the article was addressing marketing needs. lessening the time their lawyers take to create contracts. The CEO has gone as far as making an AI version that announces all of their quarterly results. In large part, the CEO feels that a lot of the work already being done by their employees can easily be done by AI. By adopting AI into the workplace the CEO feels that it will overall help their employees to have a more fulfilling career by creating new opportunities as well as freeing them up from tasks that they are doing over and over again constantly.