The AI Research Foundations is a seven-course curriculum which exposes learners to foundational building blocks of modern AI through the lens of language modeling. Research skills and responsible innovation are central to each of the courses, so that learners are empowered to create high impact and responsible AI solutions globally. The curriculum builds up to a capstone project where learners research and develop AI-backed solutions to challenges that they recognize.
The AI Research Foundations curriculum is an online curriculum that is also teachable in a hybrid mode at a university, college or grassroots meet-up.
Each course in the curriculum is a blend of reading, videos, practical labs and short assessments. This code repository contains the courses' practical labs. The full curriculum is accessible online through Google Cloud Skills Boost, initially through a private beta program.
The seven courses are in the curriculum are:
- Build Your Own Small Language Model
- Representing Text Data
- Training a Neural Network
- The Transformer Architecture
- Fine Tuning
- Getting More out of Your GPU
- Capstone Project
The courses are released sequentially, starting with course 1.
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The language models that are built as part of the AI Research Foundations Curriculum are intended for educational purposes only and may sometimes produce inaccurate, offensive, or inappropriate information that doesn't represent Google's views. Always double-check the responses of models and don't rely on them for medical, legal, financial or other professional advice.
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