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Winter 2024 |
First Iteration of the class. |
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| 1/7 |
Introduction and Project Logistics |
Why are LLMs are exciting right now; how to explore this new frontier; course logistics. |
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| 1/9 |
Project Ideas |
Students get a chance to pitch their project ideas and recruit teammates. |
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Project mini-pitch due |
| 1/14 |
LLMs and LMMs |
Lecture by John Whaley; students continue pitching and forming teams. |
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Final Project Proposal due |
| 1/16 |
AI Entrepreneurship |
Lecture by Jan Jannink and John Whaley |
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Final Project Team due |
| 1/21 |
Prompt Engineering
| Lecture by Jan Jannink and John Whaley |
Sprint 1 Start |
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| 1/23 |
LLMs for Code Generation |
Lecture by Josh Payne, Coframe |
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| 1/28 |
Building an Effective Data Strategy via UX; Presentation Prep |
Lecture by John Whaley and Jan Jannink |
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| 1/30 |
Sprint 1 Presentations |
Groups present their progress on Sprint 1. |
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Sprint 1 End |
| 2/4 |
Building AI Agents for IT Ops |
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Sprint 2 Start |
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| 2/6 |
Evaluation Methods |
Lecture by Stefan Krawczyk, DAGWorks |
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| 2/11 |
Agentic Design Patterns |
Lecture by Leonie Freisinger, Dryft |
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| 2/13 |
Sprint 2 Presentations |
Groups present their progress on Sprint 2. |
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Sprint 2 End |
| 2/18 |
LLM Orchestration; Memory Layer for AI Agents |
Lectures by Dara Ladjevardian, Delphi; Taranjeet Singh, Mem0 |
Sprint 3 Start |
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| 2/20 |
MindsDB |
Lecture by Adam Carrigan, MindsDB |
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| 2/25 |
Voice AI |
Lecture by Shreeganesh Ramanan, Inception |
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| 2/27 |
Sprint 3 Presentations |
Groups present their progress on Sprint 3. |
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Sprint 3 End |
| 3/4 |
RAG and Fine Tuning |
Lecture by Rakshit Agarwal, Synthpop |
Sprint 4 Start |
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| 3/6 |
Lessons in Building Consumer AI; Giving a Great Pitch |
Lectures by Jenny Wang, Alta; John Whaley |
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| 3/11 |
Design Databases for Multimodal AI; Building Agentic Systems |
Lectures by Vishakha Gupta, ApertureData; Gou Rao, Neubird |
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| 3/13 |
Final project presentations |
Groups present their final projects. |
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Sprint 4 End |
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Final Project Report + Code + (recommended) video demo Due 3/14 |