[Eril-l] Register by March 21 for early bird rates for our AI and Prompt Design training series

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There’s only one week left to take advantage of early bird rates for NISO’s
in-depth training series on AI and Prompt Design
<https://niso.org/events/ai-prompt-design-2024-niso-training-series>! Our
course begins on Thursday, April 4; discounts are also available for NISO
members and groups.

AI and Prompt Design
<https://niso.org/events/ai-prompt-design-2024-niso-training-series>

Thursdays, 11:00 am–12:30 pm EDT (US/Canada)

April 4–May 23, 2024

This course will introduce students to prompt engineering with large
language models (LLMs)—how you design and tailor a message to get an LLM to
perform a specific task. It is designed for students with no coding
knowledge, and a basic knowledge of machine learning is helpful but not
required; the course will bring students up to speed with all the necessary
terminology and concepts.

Sessions will be divided between instruction and hands-on lessons in which
students will apply the material as they learn. LLMs are stochastic,
meaning they can behave unpredictably and inconsistently due to their
inherent randomness and make it challenging to use them to reproduce the
desired results. The course facilitator will lead students to explore the
types of issues that arise, why they occur, and how to address them.

Students will be required to subscribe to ChatGPT for the two-month
duration of the course. This will ensure that all students are working with
the same resources and eliminate the potential challenges that arise from
working across different software and models. That said, we will also
devote a session to introducing students to the world of open-source
machine learning so that they may explore it independently after the course
concludes.

Event Sessions

The series consists of eight weekly segments, each lasting 90 minutes and
scheduled on Thursdays at 11:00 am–12:30 pm (EDT US/Canada).

April 4 Introduction and Machine Learning

April 11 Large Language Models and Key Concepts

April 18 Beginning Conversations

April 25 Structured Data and Assistants

May 2 Named Entity Recognition with LLMs

May 9 Text Classification with LLMs

May 16 Open Source Language Models

May 23 Limitations and Potential Solutions

See our event page
<https://www.niso.org/events/ai-prompt-design-2024-niso-training-series>
for additional details and course requirements. Recordings of each session
will be made available to course registrants within two business days of
the close of the specific session.

Training Facilitator: William Mattingly, Postdoctoral Fellow, Smithsonian
Institution’s Data Science Lab

The training series offers a unique professional development opportunity
for anyone wishing to get the most out of LMMs in their work. We hope
you’ll register
<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ai-prompt-design-a-2024-niso-training-series-tickets-825381266587?aff=oddtdtcreator>
and take advantage of our discounted early bird rates today!

Best,

The NISO Team


NISO

3600 Clipper Mill Road, Suite 302

Baltimore, MD 21211

Phone: 301.654.2512

E-mail: nisohq at niso.org
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