AI is the New Electricity: Generative AI Opportunities and Agentic Workflows

Explore the biggest opportunities in AI, focusing on generative AI's impact on application development and the rise of agentic workflows.

Duration: 26 minutes
Level: Beginner
8 Lessons
Generative AI Prompt Engineering Automation

Course Timeline

00:00

💡Introduction: AI as the New Electricity

Overview of AI's transformative potential and the focus on application-level opportunities.

01:53

🚀 Generative AI: Accelerated Model Development

How generative AI is drastically reducing the time to build AI applications, from months to days, enabling faster experimentation and prototyping.

03:13

💨Fast Iteration and Prototyping

The shift from lengthy, carefully planned development cycles to rapid prototyping and iteration using generative AI, making experimentation a more viable path to innovation.

06:38

🤖Agentic AI: The Future of AI Workflows

Introduction to agentic AI and its importance in enhancing large language model capabilities, moving beyond simple zero-shot prompting.

10:16

🧠Agentic Workflow Design Patterns

Exploration of four major agentic workflow design patterns: reflection, tool use, planning, and multi-agent collaboration, with illustrative examples.

15:15

🖼️Visual AI: Agentic Workflows for Images and Videos

Demonstration of agentic workflows applied to visual AI tasks, showcasing capabilities like object counting and video analysis using a demo application.

23:30

📈Key AI Trends: Beyond Agentic AI

Discussion of other important AI trends alongside agentic AI, including advancements in token generation, tool-use optimization in LLMs, data engineering, and the rise of image and video processing.

25:59

👨‍💻 Conclusion: A Great Time to be a Builder

Summary of the presentation, emphasizing the increased speed of AI development and the vast opportunities for building innovative applications.