A seminar given online at my work on 04 Dec 2024, to educate myself and others about what generative AI is, how it works, and what people might use it for right now.

00:00 Section 1: Introduction
02:57 Live demo of ChatGPT
07:33 Section 2: What is generative AI?
14:32 Live demo showing how LLMs generate each word probabilistically
17:50 Live demo of tokens
19:08 Summary of this section
22:51 Section 3a: Concerns - Privacy
23:42 Live demo of Microsoft Copilot
26:23 Section 3b: Concerns - Hallucinations
29:47 Grounding (Retrieval-Augmented Generation - RAG)
30:46 Section 4: What might be genuinely useful
30:56 AI search
32:38 AI replacing utilities
34:21 Voice apps
37:23 Ideas and planning projects
39:28 Learning about concepts
40:13 Personalised feedback
40:57 Coding (live demo - Anthropic Claude Artifacts)
44:17 Copilot Pages (demonstrated in Copilot demo above)
44:23 Google Notebook LM (live demo)
47:10 ChatGPT Canvas mode (live demo) [since become a tool available in free version]
50:52 Images
51:59 Mind mapping
52:39 My failures
53:28 Suggestion for Personal AI Strategy
53:54 Summary so far
54:36 What's coming
55:31 Wrapping up
56:12 For fun - generating a Christmas song
59:27 Comments and questions