| Unless you're working for a high frequency trading company, you will probably not receive over 10K USD of value from the this. First off, visiting companies and universities - building LLM's and using them are quite different beasts. If your management team is not highly educated in the area of ML, this will mostly be useless to them, besides any "business development" discussions one might have with people who do that at OpenAI or Google. What you are looking for is an "Applied AI" course.
And still here, you'll get sold a lot of cheap bullshit for a high price. The amount of people actually good and capable of using LLM's at a high level is still quite low, but the amount of hustlers and influencers selling basic prompts and cheap ideas is large. I've seen people do this training and it basically turns out "heres this 5 popular tools, here's how to ask ChatGPT, heres a few good prompts" and thanks for the money. Beware of that, as you'll probably get peddled that by software agencies as one step in their funnel. What you'd need, and what you can definitely get for that price tag, is a week long curated education program based on both the tech skill level of your management group and your industry. IMO, this would look quite a bit different and here's how it would ideally look: 1. Having an interview with the people included to estimate the skill level 2. Be given an insight into your workflow and a chance to observe it 3. Prepare a program dedicated to your team/industry 4. Get everyone out to a large bnb somewhere for a week 5. Have a combination of talks, QA's & "hackatons", where you will learn, build, learn again, build again, while having a chance to ask somebody real questions. You'll get out of this with more insights and experience than a few random visits to companies, and with the building, develop an intuition for how actually it works and what you can do with it. |
I fully agree with your point about the noise in this space, this is what we are trying to cut through :-).
A lot of what is marketed as “AI inspiration” is little more than buzzwords and recycled content. Your suggestion of a curated, immersive off-site experience, with hands-on workshops, industry-specific examples, and a structured learn-and-build format, is genuinely compelling. The idea of starting with interviews to assess skill levels and tailoring the programme accordingly is especially relevant for us.
If you know anyone who delivers this kind of applied AI learning in a serious and thoughtful way, I would very much appreciate an introduction.
Thanks again for the honest feedback.