Inside Al

In Inside AI, AI professor and entrepreneur Dr. Akli Adjaoute provides a comprehensive perspective on artificial intelligence, drawing on 30 years of valuable insights from his field experience. Through accessible and jargon-free explanations, the book offers a clear-headed overview of modern artificial intelligence, covering recent advances in Generative AI and Large Language Models.

Inside AI takes readers on a journey through various artificial intelligence techniques, starting from its origins in traditional expert systems and progressing seamlessly to the current era of deep learning and Large Language Models. Within the pages of 'Inside AI,' you'll gain practical insights, learning how to:

• Understand diverse AI techniques and methodologies
• Draw lessons from both successful and failed AI applications
• Identify the capabilities and limitations of AI systems
• Grasp the successful and unsuccessful uses of AI in business
• Recognize areas where human cognition still surpasses AI
• Dispel common myths, such as AI's threat to jobs and civilization
• Effectively manage AI projects

The book presents a pragmatic blueprint that leaders can leverage to drive innovation through AI.

About the Author

Dr. Akli Adjaoute is the Founder of Exponion, a venture capital firm that provides cutting-edge startup companies with the financial resources and expertise they need to achieve success. Prior to Exponion, Akli was the founder and CEO of Brighterion, which was acquired by Mastercard in 2017. Brighterion's A.I. solution is trusted by 76 of the top 100 U.S. banks and more than 2,000 customers worldwide, processing over 150+ billion transactions annually. Brighterion is also successfully applied in homeland security, healthcare, anti-money laundering, credit risk, default prediction, and data breach detection. Brighterion has received multiple awards, including the Innovation World Series Award, the Morgan Stanley Fintech Award, the U.S. FinTech Award's 2022 Banking Tech of the Year, and the 2020 Fortress Cyber Security Award for Threat Detection. Akli Adjaoute has been granted 35 patents and has over 50 patent pendings. His inventions have been cited over 2,000 times.
Akli Adjaoute is a renowned academic, speaker, and writer on the subjects of AI and security. He served as an adjunct professor at the University of San Francisco (USF) and as the Head of the A.I. department and Scientific Committee Chair at EPITA, one of Europe's leading computer science universities. He holds a master's degree in computer science from the Université de Technologies de Compiègne and a Ph.D. in artificial intelligence from the University of Pierre & Marie Curie.

Table of contents

1 The rise of machine intelligence
2 AI mastery: Essential techniques, Part 1
3 AI mastery: Essential techniques, Part 2
4 Smart agent technology
5 Generative AI and large language models
6 Human vs. machine
7 AI doesn’t turn data into intelligence
8 AI doesn’t threaten our jobs
9 Technological singularity is absurd
10 Learning from successful and failed applications of AI
11 Next-generation AI
A Tracing the roots: From mechanical calculators to digital dreams
B Algorithms and programming languages

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