Upgrade your (student) life with the power of generative AI!
The course is free for current EUR students (small deposit applies).
Our November cohort will start on the week of 3rd November! Classes will ran on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays. Registration will open soon.
Here's what you will cover in this course
Designed for beginners, this 6-week program you will help you develop a growth & positive mindset about generative AI; understand what is (and is not) Generative AI, what are its limitations & future perspectives; apply tools in the university context (writing, studying, researching) while considering ethical limitations and outside of the university context, and apply adequate prompting strategies to reach your desired outcome.
Week 1: Intro to GenAI
We will explore what LLMs are, what is (and is not) AI, the evolution and future of it and the differences between existing language models. You will do your first prompting challenge and will start to think on the Final Project you will be working on during the next few weeks.
Week 2: Prompting for efficient brainstorming
In this session, you will explore and apply Chain-of-Thought and Tree of Thought prompting, and how to use them to help you brainstorm. You will also explore generating images with GenAI and its limitations.
Week 3: Prompting for in dept research
In this session, you will dive into elaborated prompting and AI tools that can help you to research a topic. You will also create your own GPT to help you work on different tasks. You will start researching the topic of your final project.
Week 4: Prompting for assisted writing
We are going to take prompt engineering one step further and start using it to help us on the writing process, generate outlines, paraphrase, summarising and more. We will also explore GenAI tools for video generation.
Week 5: Generative AI Ethics
This week is all about ethics. Generative AI is full of opportunities and advantages but it also brings several challenges and ethical discussion surrounding topics like sustainability, copyright, deep fakes and more...
Week 6: Final Project Presentation
Over the weeks, you worked on a your Final Project where you applied AI to a chosen context. On this session, you will have the opportunity to showcase your results, process and insights to our panel of AI enthusiasts.
Meet your trainer
Maria is a project manager and data consultant at Generation C. She has led projects in automation, data strategy, and AI chatbot development. Having taught and co-created several courses at LifeVersity, she’s now back to share her passion for Generative AI and help you unlock its potential for work and creativity.
MARIA FRANCESCA BURGER