6. How do LLMs work?

Week 6 (March 2)

Assigned: C. Prototype

Agenda

• Housekeeping
  • AI in the news
    • Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War
    • Will vibe coding end like the maker movement?
  • Feedback on conjecture maps coming by Wednesday!
  • Updates on requests for observation sites.
• Discuss prototype assignment
• Hands-on introduction to machine learning: Embeddings.

• Large Language Models in Education
• Assignments
• Schedule
• 1. (Snow day)
• 2. Introductions
• 3. Design frameworks
• 4. Designing AI tools
• 5. Designing for/in context
• 6. How do LLMs work?
• 7. Prototyping
• 8. Planning a field study
• 9. Critiques
• 10. Field study design
• 11. Quantitative data analysis
• 12. Writing workshop
• 13. AI research agenda
• 14. LLMs in Education Expo