Courses

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

2024

Types
Staff IRBLleida
Date of registration period
Start date
Monday, November 11, 2024
End date
Thursday, November 14, 2024
Teachers

UdL Bioinformatics Unit

  • Characteristics:

    • 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)

    • The newborn AI

    • Raising the newborn AI: Training and validation

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

    • Large language models

    • Session 3: Creating and training AIs

    • Session 4: Running with wolves and dancing alone

  • Public: Research staff (10 positions).
  • Institution of origin: All seconded staff.
  • Duration: 15 hours.
  • Calendar and timetable: 3 sessions of 4h (11th, 12th, 13th of November [9:00-13:00]), 1 session of 3h (14th of November [9:00-12:00])
  • Location: Martina Castells room.
  • Format: face-to-face.
  • Accreditation: SCT Bioinformatics of the UdL.
  • Registration opens soon