Basics of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Who it's for

Clinicians, informaticists and aspiring AI product managers in healthcare who want a grounded understanding of what AI is and how large language models (LLMs) actually work, without the hype.

What you'll learn

• What counts as AI, and the wide ecosystem of approaches under that name
• The three epochs of AI: symbolic AI, deep learning and foundation models
• How LLMs are trained and how they generate text
• Why LLMs hallucinate, and how grounding reduces it
• The main ways to adapt an LLM to a task: prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and fine-tuning

Prerequisites

None.