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Dartmouth College and Nvidia’s Deep Learning Institute (DLI) launched a new Generative AI Teaching Kit to provide students access to tools, frameworks, and practical exercises.
According to Joe Bungo, Deep Learning Institute (DLI) program manager at NVIDIA, “this teaching kit equips students with a deep understanding of generative AI techniques and enables educators to foster future innovation and creativity in the industry.”
As students transition into the workforce, they will be better prepared to tackle global challenges, from improving healthcare and science to advancing sustainable technologies.
Sam Raymond, an adjunct assistant engineering professor at Dartmouth College, said that “empowering students with skills to understand and potentially develop their own GPU-accelerated Generative AI applications is the primary objective. “I believe students who take this course will be at a significant advantage in the job market and help bridge the knowledge gap in industries today.”
Teaching Kits include lecture slides, hands-on labs, Jupyter notebooks, knowledge checks, and free online self-paced courses that provide students with certificates of competency. They are all comprehensively packaged and ready for classroom and curriculum integration.
The kit aims to introduce the foundational concepts of natural language processing (NLP) that are essential for understanding LLMs and generative AI more broadly. Key concepts of LLMs are then examined using NVIDIA GPUs, tools, services, and open-source libraries and frameworks. A simple pretraining exercise of a GPT model shows basic training processes in the cloud.
This first release includes these modules:
- Introduction to Generative AI
- Diffusion Models in Generative AI
- LLM Orchestration
Select professors — such as Mohadeseh Taheri-Mousavi, assistant professor in the Materials Science and Engineering department at Carnegie Mellon University, and Professor Payam Barnaghi from the Department of Brain Sciences at Imperial College London — have already been given early access to first-release modules.
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