AI Awareness & Organizational Alignment

This course provides a practical, business-focused introduction to artificial intelligence, designed to build a shared understanding across teams and align AI initiatives with organizational goals. Participants will explore core AI concepts in simple terms, learn how AI is transforming industries, and identify opportunities and risks relevant to their work.

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Course Curriculum

AI Awareness & Organizational Alignment

39 Learning Materials

What is AI vs ML vs GenAI vs Agentic AI (2 hours)

AI vs. machine learning vs. deep learning vs. neural networks: What’s the difference?

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AI agent orchestration patterns

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LLM fundamentals, major LLMs & providers (6 hours)

How do Transformers work?

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Transformer Architectures

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OpenAI Platform

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Start building with Claude

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Google Gemini Docs

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Meta Llama

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Hugging Face

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Transformer Architectures - Attention based Models

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Tokens, embeddings, prompts, context windows (4 hours)

Tokenizer

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Vector Embeddings

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Prompt Engineering Guide

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Context windows

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RAG architecture, DataBricks Vector Search and Cortex Search (4 hours)

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) - I

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Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) - II

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Cortex Search

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Vector Embeddings and Chunking (4 hours)

Chunking Strategies for LLM Applications

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Vector Search

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Cortex Search

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Vector Databases and major providers (4 hours)

Pinecone

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Milvus

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Weaviate

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Chroma

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AI agents and workflows (4 hours)

Building Effective Agents

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AI agent orchestration patterns

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Agent Bricks - Production AI Agents

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Memory & Langchain (2 hours)

LangChain overview

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Model Context Protocol (MCP) (2 hours)

What is the Model Context Protocol

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Tool calling (2 hours)

Tool / Function Calling

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Tool use with Claude

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Responsible AI, governance, hallucinations (4 hours)

Responsible AI at Microsoft

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Optimizing LLM Accuracy

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System prompts (2 hours)

Prompting best practices

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Prompt engineering

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Few-shot prompting (1 hours)

Few-Shot Prompting

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Prompt engineering

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Chain-of-thought (1 hours)

Chain-of-Thought Prompting

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Python for AI (2 hours)

OpenAI Python API library

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