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Course: Introduction to Generative AI

This course is for beginners to generative AI although it is expected that some attendees will have a variety of experiences. The course has two objectives:

Contents

What can Gen AI do for us? lists the ways that Gen AI models are most useful.

Gen AI Model 101 lists the most popular (proprietary) models and describes their capabilities.

Gen AI Model 102 explains what open source models are, and lists the most popular ones.

Gen AI Model 103 describes the various ways to access and use a GenAI model; website, app, API …

Gen AI Model 104 explains terms like model size, performance, modality, tokenisation.

Guidelines for effective prompts provides a checklist for writing effective prompts.

Prompting Exercise is a getting started exercise in prompt engineering.

The Starter Tasks exercise provides practice in writing effective prompts.

The Advanced Tasks exercise explores the advanced capabilities of these AI models.

Conclusions

Optional sections: Some technical details “under the covers”

What is a large language model

How to build an AI model

What is a neural net

GenAI vs traditional AI

The shortest history of Gen AI