The AI Ladder: A Framework for Deploying AI in your Enterprise
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The AI Ladder: A Framework for Deploying AI in your Enterprise
This course is part of IBM AI Foundations for Business Specialization
Instructors: Mark J Grover
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This course is intended for business and technical professionals involved in strategic decision-making focused on bringing AI into their enterprises. Through the use of a conceptual model called βThe AI Ladderβ, participants in this course will learn the requirements, terms and concepts associated with successfully developing and deploying AI solutions in their enterprises. After completing this course you will be able to explain and describe each of the steps required to ensure success when you build and deploy AI solutions in your business enterprise.
This course is designed for business and technical leaders who are considering AI-based solutions for business challenges in their enterprises. First, this course will provide learners with a business-oriented summary of today's technologies and themes in AI. Following this summary, we will cover the concept of modernizing your information architecture (IA), summarized in the phrase, "...there is no AI without IA". Most people think implementing AI is all about using AI technologies, but the reality is quite different. While you may be able to build small AI projects just focusing on AI technologies, the projects that will have the most impact on your business will require you to leverage not just AI technologies but other technologies related to data: your information architecture. Next, learners will be introduced to the concept of the AI Ladder. The AI Ladder is a framework for understanding the work and processes that are necessary for the successful deployment of AI-based solutions in large enterprises. This course will cover each step of the AI Ladder, explaining the relevance of each step and the work involved at each step. After completing this course learners will be equipped with a powerful set of strategic tools to use in successfully developing, deploying, and maintaining AI-based business solutions.
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23 videos12 readings7 assignments
23 videosβ’Total 81 minutes
- Course Introduction and Overviewβ’7 minutes
- IBM's position on the journey to AIβ’1 minute
- Our Story: Fundamentals of AIβ’8 minutes
- Our Story: Machine Learningβ’7 minutes
- Our Story: AI Specializationsβ’3 minutes
- Our Story: Example from Amsel Healthβ’2 minutes
- Summary: AI is about three thingsβ’1 minute
- No AI Without IA Introductionβ’2 minutes
- Value Propositionβ’3 minutes
- Our Story: No AI Without IAβ’9 minutes
- Collect Data Introductionβ’2 minutes
- Ladder to AI: Collectβ’1 minute
- Our Story: Collect Data β’7 minutes
- Organize Data Introductionβ’2 minutes
- Ladder to AI: Organizeβ’2 minutes
- Our Story: Organize Dataβ’5 minutes
- Analyze Data Introductionβ’1 minute
- Ladder to AI: Analyzeβ’2 minutes
- Our Story: Analyze Dataβ’6 minutes
- Infuse AI Introductionβ’2 minutes
- Ladder to AI: Infuseβ’1 minute
- Our Story: Infuse AIβ’4 minutes
- What is IBM Watson? (in case you are curious)β’3 minutes
12 readingsβ’Total 45 minutes
- IBM Product Spotlight: watsonx.governanceβ’2 minutes
- Accelerate your journey to AI!β’2 minutes
- Drivers of AIβ’2 minutes
- A helpful framework for understanding the next videoβ’2 minutes
- Modernizing your information architectureβ’3 minutes
- Collect: Making data simple and accessibleβ’2 minutes
- Organizing your dataβ’2 minutes
- Analyzing your dataβ’4 minutes
- Infuse AIβ’5 minutes
- What's Next: Explore watsonx.governanceβ’1 minute
- Where are you on your Journey to AI? (interactive)β’10 minutes
- Introduction to AI and the AI Ladder: Summary/Reviewβ’10 minutes
7 assignmentsβ’Total 38 minutes
- Check for Understanding: Introduction to the AI Ladder and Fundamentals of AIβ’5 minutes
- Check for Understanding: No AI Without IAβ’3 minutes
- Check for Understanding: Collect Dataβ’5 minutes
- Check for Understanding: Organize Dataβ’5 minutes
- Check for Understanding: Analyze Dataβ’3 minutes
- Check for Understanding: Infuse AIβ’5 minutes
- End of Module Quiz: Introduction to AI and the AI Ladderβ’12 minutes
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Great context for thinking strategically about applying these tools.
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Simple and practical course to help frame data and AI maturity to allow focus on the right areas.
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