With the release of power, transformer-based Large Language Models such as ChatGPT it's become of paramount importance to understand how to best use AI models in our teaching, research, and other pursuits. In this Summer Institute we'll cover model fundamentals all the way to training your own model. The emphasis for the Intensive will be how to use them, how to train them, and how to deploy them to solve a variety of problems. The goal is that participants who come to the workshop with data for a project in-hand will end the workshop with an initial model upon which to build further work.

All sessions will be remote, on Zoom. 

The Summer course, while free, has limited capacity. The goal of the workshop is to generate new research and new teaching resources on the Vanderbilt University campus using AI techniques. Recordings and resources from the workshops will be made available to everyone. Priority for participation in the live workshop will be given to 1) researchers and educators that have a research goal in mind (and, ideally, some preliminary data in hand) and 2) students who are interested in joining the researchers and educators on projects that arise from these workshops, then 3) all others interested in AI. Even if you don't have a particular project defined, but are interested in using the techniques, please do apply. Feel free to reach out to discuss possible projects if you don't already have one in mind (https://calendly.com/dsi-data-science-team/research-consultation)!

If you have more limited experience with Python, we suggest that you participate in pre-workshops training. Contact Jesse Spencer-Smith for information (jesse.spencer-smith@vanderbilt.edu).