Career Discovery Week — AI Workshop
Raise your hand if you've used
ChatGPT, Gemini, or Claude.
What did you use it for?
You're already living in the AI era.
Let me show you what's really happening.
“The Thinking Machine” — featuring Claude Shannon, the father of information theory.
The questions haven't changed. The answers have.
The internet gave AI billions of examples to learn from
Gaming GPUs turned out to be perfect for AI math
Transformers (2017) — the architecture behind every modern AI
All three hit critical mass between 2012 and 2017.
Then everything changed.
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Can AI see what it did?
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Did it work?
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What went wrong?
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Try again.
AI sees through your camera in real-time. Identifies objects, remembers where you left things.
Jaw-drop: “Where did I leave my glasses?”
▶ Watch on YouTube (~3 min)AI controls a computer — moves mouse, clicks, types, reads errors, fixes them.
Jaw-drop: Hits a bug → reads terminal → fixes it.
▶ Watch on YouTube (~4 min)Type a scene and AI generates video with synchronized dialogue.
Jaw-drop: A cowboy speaks your exact words.
▶ Watch on YouTube (~3 min)Type a description → get a music track in 10 seconds.
“lo-fi hip hop with vinyl crackle and soft piano”
▶ labs.google/musicfxDrag in images → AI remixes them into new creations. Combine styles, subjects, scenes.
Drop a photo of yourself + a style image → instant mashup
▶ labs.google/whiskUpload any document → AI generates a podcast about it.
Upload a chapter, click “Audio Overview”
▶ notebooklm.google.comText → cinematic video clip with synchronized audio, dialogue, and music.
“Medium shot of a student standing alone in a vast library after hours. She reaches for an old book on the top shelf — as her fingers touch the spine, the pages burst open and golden light floods out, illuminating her face. The camera slowly pushes in as floating letters swirl around her. She whispers in quiet awe, ‘It was here the whole time.’ Cinematic, warm golden lighting. Audio: Soft piano, pages rustling, gentle orchestral swell.”
▶ labs.google/flowTerminal-based agent. Builds entire codebases — writing, running, reading errors, fixing bugs in a loop.
▶ 30-min MasterclassRan for 25 hours straight. Built a 3D racing game from one prompt. 30,000 lines. Then played its own game to find bugs.
▶ Building a Game with CodexGoogle's terminal agent. Reads your codebase, writes files, runs commands, fixes bugs — all from the command line.
▶ Gemini CLI on GitHub📋
Vague asks → vague work.
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It doesn't know what you know.
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It WILL make mistakes.
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“Not what I wanted. Change X.”
70–80% of AI failures trace back to the human not managing the AI properly.
Magic button → disappointment. Your teammate → incredible results.
AI chat, image understanding, homework help
Upload docs → AI podcast, flashcards, quizzes
Build working apps from text descriptions
Writing, coding, analysis, image generation
Deep analysis, writing, research
Train your own AI in 5 min — no code
AI guesses your drawings in 20 seconds
Generate music from a text description
AI search engine with cited sources
Homework: Pick 3 tools. Use each for 15 minutes. Come back ready to share.
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Fall behind as tools become standard
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Produce mediocre, generic work
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Amplify your thinking. Keep your judgment.
What surprised you most today?
What's one thing about AI that worries you?
What will you try first?
Don't just be consumers of AI.
Be the ones who decide what it should do.