AIML 901

Fall 2025 lecture recordings

Sébastien Martin

Fall 2025 Lecture Recordings

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Class 1 (10/21): Let’s Get Building

Dive straight into action using and creating AI agents while exploring course deliverables and expectations.

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Class 2 (10/25): Pretraining a Large Language Model

Train your own LLM from scratch to demystify how these powerful models actually learn from data.

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Class 3 (10/28): Post-training and Alignment

Discover the crucial steps that transform a raw LLM into a helpful, safe, and reliable AI assistant.

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Class 4 (10/31): AI Agents

How AI agents work, how to give them tools (RAG, etc.), and how to use them.

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Class 5 (11/4): Leveraging AI

Deep-dive in the “ChatGPT” product and prompting techniques.

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Class 6 (11/5): The AI Frontier

An exploration of the state-of-the-art AI technologies and where all of this might be going. Hands-on with the Lovable agent.

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Class 7 (11/7): Evaluation

Learn why evaluation pipelines are often more critical than the agents themselves for successful AI deployment.

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Class 8 (11/11): AgentOps Case Study

Consulting for Proxima Health Systems—what’s necessary for an AI project’s success?

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Class 9 (11/14): AgentOps

How do we drive impact with AI? How should companies adapt to the AI disruptions?

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Class 10 (11/18): Project Showcase & Farewell

The bittersweet last class—final exam and project deliverables overview, Kai-led project competition, and tips to stay up to date.

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Recitation Recordings

Recitation 1: Let’s Build a Google Calendar Agent (Getting Started with n8n)

Master the fundamentals of n8n, your go-to platform for creating and testing intelligent agents.

Recitation 1 Recording

Recitation 2: Let’s Build an Email Triage Agent (n8n Deep Dive)

Level up your n8n skills with advanced features that will empower your course project.

Recitation 2 Recording

Recitation 3: Let’s Build a Bilingual Communications Agent (Advanced n8n Usage)

Expand your project’s capabilities with advanced n8n functionalities to explore on your own.

Recitation 3 Recording

Recitation 4: Let’s Build an Expense Categorization Agent (Agent Evaluation)

Build a robust evaluation pipeline in n8n, a critical requirement for your project’s success.

Recitation 4 Recording

Recitation 5: Creating End-to-End Products with AI/Final Exam Prep

Transform your agent backends into polished products using Lovable and other tools to create beautiful apps and websites.

Recitation 5 Recording