AI for professionals

Resources to use generative AI in a professional context

Slide decks, blog posts and other resources for professionals and business students.

Designed by Clement Levallois, Associate Professor at emlyon business school.

This content is licensed under CC BY 4.0, with cited or linked content subject to their respective licenses.

1. The meaning of ChatGPT and generative AI

📢 6 visions for generative AI

a discussion of prominent viewpoints on generative AI in Oct 2023.

☢️ is ChatGPT AGI?

written in Sept 2023, in reaction to the flux of 'chatgpt is not AGI' arguments.

💭 the significance of ChatGPT

an appraisal of ChatGPT, 30 days after its release (Dec 2022). also available in French.

🛥️ ️seven reasons why you are (already) missing the AI boat

A blog post (Nov 2023) by Philippe Silberzahn, professor of strategy at emlyon business school. Also available in French.

🏹️ AI: Your next competitor will be a centaur

A blog post (Jan 2018) by Philippe Silberzahn, professor of strategy at emlyon business school. Also available in French.

2. Slide decks on AI for professionals

with speaker notes 👨‍🏫: these notes are visible when you open the slides from a laptop, not on mobile.

📚 'Principles of generative AI'

Defining large language models in relation to other types of machine learning and AI.

📱 'Landscape of business apps leveraging gen AI'

Categorizing gpt-powered business apps, and evaluating the value they create.

🖋️ 'How to prompt'

Recommendations to obtain effective results.

⛑️ 'AI and ethics'

Guidelines to diagnose and act on the harm AI can cause.

🌊 'Digital transformation in four waves'

'Digital transformation' encompasses a variety of business cases, each with different challenges.

🤝 'Platforms: focus on an impactful type of digital transformation'

Platformization is not about leveraging digital techs to create more value, along the usual lines. It involves a complete turn around of the business model.

🗂️ 'AI for professionals: the full deck of slides'

The entire deck. 240+ slides, which are extended on a regular basis.

3. Train in gen AI: techniques & cases

🚀 case study: Pieter Levels

The story of Pieter Levels (@levelsio) building interior.ai then photoai.com with gen AI in 2022-23, documented in 60+ slides.

💡 Business cases using gen AI

Very simple toy exercises to get started on using prompts in a professional context.

📝 Exams in the age of ChatGPT

How to make room for chatgpt in class and in exams, without compromising.

🤖 Tech explainer chatbot

A custom chatbot created with OpenAI, fine-tuned on the content on my lecture materials. It is meant to serve as a teaching assistant to students. However the access is currently limited to GPT+ subscribers.

🖽 DDBM: using canvases for value creation with data and AI

10 canvases in PowerPoint to guide a team from the definition of strategic objectives to the design of a data-driven project contributing to achieving these goals. Co-designed with Guillaume Lecuyer.

Key people to follow

For your convenience, all these profiles are gathered in this list on Twitter / X. Just follow the list to follow all the profiles.
Twitter remains a forum where all (but 3) of the persons listed below post or cross-post frequently. Yet, I fully acknowledge that some or many of them do not wish to associate with Twitter. For this reason for each profile, clicking on their portrait leads to another meaningful site or platform.

Sam Altman

CEO OpenAI 💻

Azeem Azhar

AI • hardware • energy • economy • geopolitics • climate change • business 💻

Jasmijn Bastings

ML interpretability & Gender-fair AI 💻

Sinead Bovell

Joyann Boyce

Detecting bias in marketing 💻

Ellen Broad

Data, AI ethics, board games, cybernetics. 💻

Joy Buolamwini

Founder Algorithmic Justice League, Author of 'Unmasking AI' 💻

Antonio Casilli

Sociologist studying digital platform labor and more. 💻

Emily Chang

Host and executive producer of 'The Circuit', a Bloomberg Originals series that goes behind the scenes with founders, influencers and innovators. 💻

Lynn Cherny

Data science, NLP, AI for creativity & story; science fiction, games. 💻

Rowan Cheung

Sharing the latest developments in the world of artificial intelligence. 💻

Kate Crawford

Scholar of artificial intelligence and its impacts ; produces art installations and visual investigations. 💻

Laurence Devillers

Research on chatbots, affective robots. Posts mainly in French 🇫🇷. 💻

Clement Delangue

Co-founder & CEO @HuggingFace 🤗 💻

Benedict Evans

Independent analyst who spent 20 years analysing mobile, media and technology, and worked in equity research, strategy, consulting and venture capital. 💻