Module overview
In this module you will explore Generative AI, the recent advance in AI system capability that produces text, images, video, audio or software code in response to a user’s prompting. The module explains some of the novel techniques used in this form of AI (e.g. large language models, transformers, attention) and gives you the opportunity to use generative AI to solve specific problems with hands-on experience of deployment through training large language models (LLMs), prompt engineering and fine tuning.
Students will develop a responsible AI perspective by examining the problems, limitations , economic and human costs of these technologies in terms of hallucinations, energy consumption, intellectual property violations, the social impact on labour markets and challenges to the cultural sector.
The module will also address the claims made by technology leaders concerning the future evolution of Generative AI chat-bots into Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), and the so-called “existential” risks of AI.