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Aalto University
FITech MOOC Introduction to large language models
This is an introductory course to large language models and after completing the course the student will understand the key principles underlying the large language models and can also engineer prompts to improve output quality. No prior knowledge is needed to complete the course.
Content
Course contents
Language models, large language models, prompting and prompt engineering, issues and concerns related to large language models.
Learning outcomes
After the course the students
- understand the role of data in contemporary artificial intelligence and understand what language models are
- can identify key milestones that have led to the present large language models, and have a high-level understanding of how large language models work
- can use techniques for prompting large language models, and understand the basics of prompt engineering
- know about challenges related to using large language models, including hallucination and potential biases.
Completion methods
Online assignments. Course will be assessed pass/fail.
This MOOC course is part of the FITech network university’s offering. Read more about FITech here (Opens in a new tab).
Contains
No active implementations at present.
Further details
Fields
Information and communication technologies
Organiser
Aalto University
Contact person
fitech@aalto.fi