About us
AppliedAI is a 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to developing the next generation of AI leaders in Minnesota. We do this through a conference, podcast, weekly news, monthly newsletters, YouTube channel, and monthly meetups. Our events provide education, hands-on training, and real-world AI applications to help people of all ages learn how to use AI to solve real-life problems.
Additionally, we encourage you to subscribe to our Conversation On Applied AI Podcast. We publish new episodes every other week on topics related to Artificial Intelligence and its applications! We also publish a Monthly Newsletter with details on our current events and ways to engage with our community.
What is Artificial Intelligence
In computer science, artificial intelligence (AI), sometimes called machine intelligence, is intelligence demonstrated by machines, in contrast to the natural intelligence displayed by humans. Leading AI textbooks define the field as the study of "intelligent agents": any device that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its chance of successfully achieving its goals. Colloquially, the term "artificial intelligence" is often used to describe machines (or computers) that mimic "cognitive" functions that humans associate with the human mind, such as "learning" and "problem solving".
What is AppliedAI?
Simple. :) It's the real-world applications that these far-fetched, big ideas lead to. Some things around us that are applications of AI include digital assistants (Google Home, Alexa), self-driving cars, robots, chatbots and many many more!
Who should go AppliedAI Meetups?
This group is a place for anyone who is interesting in learning, sharing and applying Artificial Intelligence to their products and services. It's also for people of all ages just interested in what's going on in the AI space by networking and talking with real-world practitioners of this exciting and new technology.
What happens at AppliedAI Meetups?
• We have speakers and panelists talking about AI in real-world scenarios
• We do demos of AI related projects and explain how they work
• We discuss, where AI has been, where it is today and where it's heading in the future
• We have fun!
Where else can I find you?
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We also have a podcast and YouTube page.
What are the colors of your logo?
They are derived from the color palette of a few of the first-ever AI-generated photos from Google’s Deep Learning tool.
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Using AI to Generate Intelligent Textbooks
Lab651, 550 Vandalia St #231, St Paul, MN, USOverview
Inspired by Neal Stephenson's Diamond Age and its vision of an AI tutor that adapts to every learner, this talk shares Dan McCreary's journey to build that device for real using Claude Code Skills. You'll see how a learning-graph foundation, interactive MicroSims, and roughly 30 specialized skills combine to generate consistent, hyper-personalized textbooks at scale — already producing 88 books, 1,200+ MicroSims, and a growing library of mini graphic novels. We'll walk through the five levels of intelligent textbooks, the pipeline from course description to finished chapters with quizzes and teacher guides, and the engineering challenges of getting LLMs to produce reliably interactive content. The closing question is the one that started the quest: if a 12-year-old anywhere on Earth could have the same quality of personalized education as a student at MIT, shouldn't we build it?Agenda
6:00pm - 6:30pm: Networking - food & drinks
6:30pm - 8:00pm: Presentation & discussion
8:00pm: Networking at Lake Monster BrewingMeet Our Featured Speaker
Dan McCreary is a semi-retired AI researcher with a background in knowledge representation. His career began at Bell Labs as a chip designer and worked with Steve Job at NeXT Computer. He was an entrepreneur for many years and wrote a book on database selection. He was a distinguished engineer at Optum where he built the world's largest healthcare knowledge graph. Dan believes that AI technologies will make high-quality education accessible to everyone on the planet.Sponsors
This event is sponsored by Lab651 & Recursive Awesome7 attendees
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