778064 - Practicum AI Intermediate Series
Course Description
UF faculty, staff, and students can get a discount code for free access from the UFIT Research Computing Practicum AI page.
Presented by UFIT Research Computing, Practicum AI is a hands-on AI curriculum intended for learners with limited coding and math backgrounds. Using interactive exercises and graphically based conceptual content, our hope is to support learners who seek to begin exploring applied AI.
The Practicum AI courses focus on teaching coding skills to train AI models. While we cover using Large Language Models as coding assistants, these courses are not focused on using LLMs via chat interfaces.
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Computer Vision: This course covers training AI models for image classification, object detection and image segmentation. We explore how computers learn to understand and interpret visual information from the world. From the basics of the convolutional neural network (CNN) to data augmentation, transfer learning and vision transformers, this course provides a solid foundation for coding computer vision applications.
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Transfer Learning: Transfer learning allows you to leverage the network architecture and trained weights from other researchers and apply these in new contexts. This course covers feature extraction, model fine-tuning, and adaptation. From image models to language models, we discuss the mechanics of transfer learning and provide hands-on coding examples, taking models from Hugging Face and putting those to work in your AI task.
Cost:
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Courses taken through this site are $20 each. This includes:
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In-course quizzes to check your learning.
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Digital badges from Credly for completing each course.
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All course content is also freely available at https://practicumai.org/
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Our goal is to build AI knowledge. If you don’t want the quizzes, badges, and certificate, enjoy the content for free!
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All course content can be found in Canvas Commons. Instructors who use Canvas can easily import our content and re-use it for free in their own courses.
Note: Course enrollment does not include access to UF’s high-performance computing environment, HiPerGator. You may use your existing HiPerGator resources, or all content can be completed using a free Google account. Detailed instructions are provided for each use case.