In a collaboration between the Imperial College Business School and Imperial College’s Department of Computing led by Professor of Practice David Shrier, an entrepreneurship module entitled ‘AI Ventures’ was created to help students launch new enterprises using or building AI. Students are placed into diverse teams and workshop a business strategy and product idea during the module. This curriculum was adapted in January 2023 to explicitly incorporate generative AI as a ‘thought partner’ in creating the components of their business plans. Student prompts were restructured to encourage them to apply critical thinking and analysis to the outputs produced by the Large Language Models (LLMs).
In the future, the Business School plan to experiment in AI Ventures with an LLM-based ‘generative AI teaching assistant’ which takes over 600,000 words of Professor Shrier’s writing about AI and tech and loads it into Chat-GPT4. This can serve to answer student questions on basic concepts such as ‘what is generative AI?’
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