Designed as an introduction to the features of generative AI, the course brought together 20 Master’s students of the SP Jain School of Global Management (Dubai, Sydney, and India).
“One of the goals of Russia’s revised national strategy for the development of AI is to increase international collaboration in the fields of AI technology and education export. In this context, ITMO University is creating strategic partnerships with numerous educational organizations in the UAE. AI is one of the crucial areas on the educational and scientific agenda for the UAE universities, which leads to a great demand in AI training,” noted Alexandra Klimova, the deputy head of ITMO’s School of Translational Information Technologies.
The International School in GenAI by ITMO University in Dubai. Photo by the school’s organizers
The speakers were Nikolay Butakov and Maria Khodorchenko, senior researchers at ITMO’s Research Center “Strong AI in Industry.”
Within ten days, students learned to use AI in problem-solving, utilize prompts and retrain models, and grew familiar with AI ethics and safety.
At the end of the course, participants presented seven projects in the field of generative AI that used traditional coding and large language models to automate various tasks. One of the projects concerned the development of software that evaluates presentations against various criteria (structure, readability, design, and alignment) and rates them on a 10-point scale. Another project focused on a model that generates a brief description of characters’ relations in a given text.
