I’ve been working with AI for a very long time. Long ago I conducted one of the first academic studies of AI ethics as a thesis project. I built and launched an expert systems development environment before the first link was connected on the World Wide Web.
The first research I did on AI was on RISC-based computing architectures (the chips in your phone) when RISC processors were the size of refrigerators.
I also wrote and deployed the AI Editor, a generative AI tool that creates news and content dynamically. It might not seem like much today, but I did it way back in 2010 when I had to build a generative AI engine from scratch. At the time, to work, it had to be distributed across five separate servers, each running one agent from a team of clustered AI agents.
I’ve just finished coding a free AI defense product available to all WordPress users that enables them to defend against AI training and scraping, as well as an advanced version (which people pay for) that enables proactive countermeasures against AI scraping for training.
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I also have a master’s degree in education, which focuses on learning and technology. My expertise is adult online learning, so things like this are within my reach.
When it comes to the courses and programs I’m highlighting here, there’s no way I could take them all. But I’ve taken at least one course from each vendor to test them and report back to you. And, given my long background in the world of AI, this is a topic that has fascinated and fascinated me for most of my academic and professional career.
With all that said, I would say the absolute high point was when I could get the AI to talk like a pirate.
