NVIDIA Teams Up with Dartmouth for a Free Generative AI Teaching Kit
Learn LLMs, NLP, GPT, diffusion, training, optimization, and more — or grab the materials you need to teach the concepts yourself.
NVIDIA's Deep Learning Institute (DLI) has announced the release of a generative artificial intelligence (gen AI) teaching kit, developed in partnership with Dartmouth College and designed to deliver the skills and knowledge the company believes the next generation of professionals will need.
"Empowering students with skills to understand and potentially develop their own GPU-accelerated generative AI applications is the primary objective," explains Sam Raymond, adjunct assistant professor of engineering at Dartmouth, of the teaching kit he helped develop. "I believe students who go through this course will be at a significant advantage in the job market and help bridge the knowledge gap in industries today."
NVIDIA's Generative AI Teaching Kit, as with its previous kits, comes with lecture slides, hands-on lab work, Jupyter notebooks, and knowledge checks, along with online courses that can be completed at the student's own pace — and which provide certificates of competency at the end. The focus of this latest course: introducing the fundamentals of natural language processing (NLP) as it applies to large language models (LLMs).
The course also walks through cloud-powered training of a Generative Pretrained Transformer (GPT) model — using NVIDIA's cloud platform, of course — before branching out into modules that cover diffusion models for image and video generation, multi-model LLM architectures and their optimization, and LLM orchestration, with more modules to follow in due course, the company promises.
"College and university education in generative AI is crucial due to the rapidly expanding role of AI in almost every industry," claims NVIDIA's Joe Bungo, NVIDIA DLI program manager, in support of the new teaching kit. "By integrating generative AI into their curriculum, universities prepare the next generation of AI researchers, engineers, and thought leaders to advance the field and address the complex challenges associated with AI-driven innovation."
The kit is freely available, along with the company's previous releases, via the NVIDIA DLI Teaching Kit Program now.