Free Google AI Skills Boost Courses
Learn about AI by taking the Generative AI Learning Path Course
Google has many great resources for people wanting to learn more about technology. They have free certification courses. I always tell my students, especially those who want to go to school for Computer Science to look into taking some of the courses like this Cybersecurity one.
Google also has just launched some free Generative AI coursebelieteachn help not only you learn more but also but, also your students. Howere partuld it be if these courses were part of an AI course they took? Or as a librarian, you offered them a chance to earn badges, etc for taking them, and then they could be added to their high school transcript.
Here is a description of the different courses you can take on the AI Learning Path. You can take one course or more than one. These are the descriptions of the courses from their website:
Intro to Generative AI: This is an introductory-level microlearning course aimed at explaining what Generative AI is, how it is used, and how it differs from traditional machine-learning methods. It also covers Google Tools to help you develop your own Gen AI apps. This course is estimated to take approximately 45 minutes to complete.
Into to Large Language Models: This is an introductory level microlearning course that explores what large language models (LLM) are, the use cases where they can be utilized, and how you can use prompt tuning to enhance LLM performance. It also covers Google tools to help you develop your own Gen AI apps. This course is estimated to take approximately 45 minutes to complete.
Into to Responsible AI: This is an introductory-level microlearning course aimed at explaining what responsible AI is, why it's important, and how Google implements responsible AI in their products. It also introduces Google's 7 AI principles.
Generative AI Fundamentals: Earn a skill badge by completing the Introduction to Generative AI, Introduction to Large Language Models, and Introduction to Responsible AI courses. By passing the final quiz, you'll demonstrate your understanding of foundational concepts in generative AI.
Intro to Image Generation: This course introduces diffusion models, a family of machine learning models that recently showed promise in the image generation space. Diffusion models draw inspiration from physics, specifically thermodynamics. Within the last few years, diffusion models became popular in both research and industry. Diffusion models underpin many state-of-the-art image generation models and tools on Google Cloud. This course introduces you to the theory behind diffusion models and how to train and deploy them on Vertex AI.
Encoder-Decoder Architecture: This course gives you a synopsis of the encoder-decoder architecture, which is a powerful and prevalent machine learning architecture for sequence-to-sequence tasks such as machine translation, text summarization, and question answering. You learn about the main components of the encoder-decoder architecture and how to train and serve these models. In the corresponding lab walkthrough, you’ll code in TensorFlow a simple implementation of the encoder-decoder architecture for poetry generation from the beginning.
Attention Mechanism: This course will introduce you to the attention mechanism, a powerful technique that allows neural networks to focus on specific parts of an input sequence. You will learn how attention works, and how it can be used to improve the performance of a variety of machine learning tasks, including machine translation, text summarization, and question answering.
This course is estimated to take approximately 45 minutes to complete.
Transformer Models and BERT Model: This course introduces you to the Transformer architecture and the Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) model. You learn about the main components of the Transformer architecture, such as the self-attention mechanism, and how it is used to build the BERT model. You also learn about the different tasks that BERT can be used for, such as text classification, question answering, and natural language inference. This course is estimated to take approximately 45 minutes to complete.
Create Image Captioning Models: This course teaches you how to create an image captioning model by using deep learning. You learn about the different components of an image captioning model, such as the encoder and decoder, and how to train and evaluate your model. By the end of this course, you will be able to create your own image captioning models and use them to generate captions for images
Introduction to Generative AI Studio: This course introduces Generative AI Studio, a product on Vertex AI, that helps you prototype and customize generative AI models so you can use their capabilities in your applications. In this course, you learn what Generative AI Studio is, its features and options, and how to use it by walking through demos of the product. In the end, you will have a quiz to test your knowledge.
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