Course Code: gibsp
Duration: 7 hours
Course Outline:

Gen AI


Introduction to AI and LLMs (4h)
- Introduction to AI (from Multi layer perceptrons (MLP) to self-attention)
- Introduction to Transformers and LLMs
- How do LLMs deal with external information (Retrieval Augmented Generation)
          - What is RAG
          - Managing Data for RAG
          - Rag with an LLM
- Fine tuning
- Common Tools and Technologies around AI


Operations of AI (4h)
- Hardware/resource requirements for running LLM (i.e. how much vRAM is needed)
- Options to host your open source LLM model on premise or on the cloud
         - Cloud
         - On-Premise
         - Free Model - Risks and Advantages:
                  - Ollama: https://ollama.com/blog/llama3.2-vision
                  - Mistral, huggingface: https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Mistral-7B-v0.1
        - Alternatives - Risks and Advantages:
                 - OpenAI ChatGPT
- LLM failure modes, vulnerabilities introduced by LLMs
- Some legal context for AI (EU AI act)