Intro to ML

These materials are designed to power roughly 8 hours of class time focused on demystifying LLM technology for people who have no software background whatsoever. There are four broad segments:

1. A history of AI and an overview of common AI and ML tasks and tactics. (Lecture driven)

   • Historical context for modern techniques.
   • The wide variety of tasks AI/ML have been applied to.
   • The various types of AI and ML models that have been developed.

2. Case Studies. (discussion driven)

   • Actual examples of AI/ML systems that have been deployed, and what happened as a result.
   • How things can go poorly.
   • How things can go well.
   • How to mitigate errors.

3. The current corporate and academic landscape related to LLM technology. (research driven)

   • Who is performing research?
   • What kinds of AI/ML products and services are there?
     • Who is providing which kinds of AI/ML services?
   • Impact and politics around open and closed models.

4. Using LLMs and image generators. (exercise driven)

   • Prompt strategies
   • Lots of practice

For Instructors:

• Files are named to indicate the order in which they should be delivered.
• Any markdown files are lecture notes, written with the expectation that you'll have a (digital) blackboard available where you can illustrate many of the concepts in the lecture.
  • If you won't have that, you may wish to create some diagrams or slides to accompany the lesson plans.
• Periodically there are "micro" and "mini" exercises embedded in the markdown and Python files.
  • Micro exercises should take about 1-2 minutes to complete.
  • Mini exercises should take about 5 minutes to complete.
• There are also a variety of "full" exercises.
  • Exercises in this repo describe their own timing expectations.

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