Prerequisites: Hello world level programming in Python.

Course outline:
AI basics
AI practicalities: Using Bard, ChatGPT, Copilot, Bing, and others.
        AI inference engine installation

AI and text
        Generation
        Digestion
        Hallucination
        Citation
        Literature surveys
        Legalities

AI and code
        Generation
        Checking
        Garbage in, garbage out.

Prompt engineering

Making a web page with AI

AI and graphics
        Scientific illustration
        Image manipulation. Fakes.
        Is it art?

AI and sound
        Sound manipulation basics
        Speech synthesis
        Music. Is it art?

AI and science
        Alpha fold
        DeepLabCut and SLEAP
        Classifiers

Build an AI
        Train it
        Validate it
        Break it
        Inference engine

Course outcome: Acquaintance with AI concepts and tools

Instructor - Upinder Bhalla

Schedule: Tuesday and Thursday, 11.30 to 1.00pm

Venue: SAFEDA

NO AUDIT