Probabilistic parrots: an intro to opportunities and perils of AI in research

Session 1: Learning the lingo

• Types of AI tools

• How do they work?

• Where can I get them and how to use them?

Session 2: Probabilistic parrots

• Opportunities

• Perils

• Are we that different? (Bayesian and deep neural nets)

Session 3: Creating and training AIs

• The newborn AI

• Raising the newborn AI: Training and validation

• Adopting an AI: What is out there and how to get it.

Session 4: Running with wolves and dancing alone

• Large language models