AI and Chatbots

1 Units

Course Description

Add Effective Use of Chatbots to Your Career Toolbox

Explore how organizations can use AI chatbots and agents to address business needs. In this introductory, hands-on course, students follow a practical decision process: Should we build it? How should it work? Can we trust it? Students assess a business opportunity and its data requirements; assign appropriate roles to generative AI, APIs, business rules, existing systems, and people, and develop a small chatbot prototype using sample organizational information. Through structured testing, students evaluate whether the prototype accomplishes its intended business purpose and assess reliability, risk, cost, and complexity. The course culminates in an evidence-based recommendation identifying whether and how the solution should move forward. Emphasis is on informed business participation and prototype evaluation; enterprise production deployment is beyond the course scope.

Course Details

Number of Units: 1.0 graduate-level extension credit(s) in semester hours

Who Should Attend: Business professionals, managers, product and project leads, business analysts, consultants, and customer service or operations leaders who want to evaluate or contribute to organizational AI chatbot and agent initiatives.

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What You Will Learn

  • Assess whether an AI chatbot or agent is appropriate for a defined business problem, considering user needs, expected value, and alternatives
  • Identify required data sources and assess their quality, currency, accessibility, permissions, and suitability
  • Design a workflow assigning appropriate responsibilities to generative AI, APIs, databases, business rules, existing systems, and humans
  • Develop a limited chatbot prototype using sample organizational information, clear instructions, defined boundaries, and an escalation approach
  • Evaluate prototype performance using representative test cases, expected behaviors, and risk-based criteria
  • Recommend whether and how a solution should proceed using test evidence and consideration of value, oversight, cost, complexity, and production gaps

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Professional development courses offered by the ÀÇÓÑÉçÇøâ€™s Division of Professional & Continuing Education are taught by faculty that possess a depth and breadth of academic and real-world professional experience.

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