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Data-centric AI Brown Bag: AI Reproducibility, AI Readiness, and FAIR

DGIT and the UCLA Library
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Amidst the backdrop of powerful AI engines producing essays and pirate shanties, it’s easy to forget that machine learning (ML) is still an onerous process for many that begins with finding and cleaning data. AI/ML relies on machine actionable data and adds complexity to an already difficult task for data stewards, research computing facilitators, and...

Learning ChatGPT: An Accessible Introduction

Office of Advanced Research Computing
IDRE Portal 5628 Math Sciences Building, 520 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Since its launch in November 2022, ChatGPT has rapidly become one of the most intriguing technological advancements of our time. In the first session of our "Learning ChatGPT" workshop series, we will explore the significance and functionalities of ChatGPT. The session aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of what ChatGPT is, its inherent limitations, the...

Learning ChatGPT: A Deep Technical Dive

Office of Advanced Research Computing
IDRE Portal 5628 Math Sciences Building, 520 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Since its launch in November 2022, ChatGPT has rapidly become one of the most intriguing technological advancements of our time. In the second session of our "Learning ChatGPT" workshop series, we are set to undertake a deep technical dive into ChatGPT. This session will encompass an in-depth discussion on the transformer architecture, explore fine-tuning techniques,...

Rapid AI Prototyping with custom GPTs pt. 1

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Learn how to rapidly build a low cost AI prototype for research and education with custom GPTs, prompt engineering, and turn-key solutions from leading LLM providers.

Rapid AI Prototyping with custom GPTs pt. 2

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Learn how to rapidly build a low cost AI prototype for research and education with custom GPTs, prompt engineering, and turn-key solutions from leading LLM providers. This will be a hands on workshop.

Running Jupyter Notebooks on the Hoffman2 Cluster

Office of Advanced Research Computing
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Jupyter Notebook, JupyterLab and Voilà are a powerful tool for interactive computing, for proof of concept implementations and for creating interactive web applications or dashboards. Come and learn how to open Jupyter sessions on your local browser while harnessing the computing power on the Hoffman2 Cluster. Work in a mamba/python environment, in R, julia or...

Introduction to AI/ML/LLM for Humanities and Social Science

Office of Advanced Research Computing
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As artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and Large Language Models (LLM) technologies continue to evolve, they offer new possibilities for humanities research, from large-scale text and image analysis to generative AI applications that synthesize and extrapolate knowledge. This workshop introduces key AI/ML/LLM concepts, including neural networks, large language models, and large image models, while...

Learn Prompt Engineering and Retrieval Augmented Generation using Open Source LLMs

Office of Advanced Research Computing
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Are you interested in using LLMs for research? In this 90 minute hands-on workshop, you will learn how to install and deploy an open-source LLM on your local environment, create a Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) model with visual builders from Diffy and AWS Bedrock and learn prompt-engineering techniques to reduce the occurrence of hallucination and...

AI Ethics for Humanities and Social Science

Office of Advanced Research Computing
Zoom & OARC Portal MS 5628

This follow-up to the previous “Introduction to AI/ML/LLM for Humanities and Social Science” workshop builds upon the skills and techniques of using and implementing AI to discuss the technology’s social, ethical, and political ramifications, along with guidelines to using AI for research and teaching. The workshop will address critical ethical concerns surrounding AI, including bias, the network...

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