Courses

Probabilistic parrots: an intro to opportunities and perils of AI in research

Types
Staff IRBLleida
Date of registration period
Start date
Monday, December 01, 2025
End date
Friday, December 05, 2025
Teachers

UdL Bioinformatics Unit

  • Characteristics:
    • Session 1: Learning the lingo

      • Types of AI tools

      • How do they work?

      • Where can I get them and how to use them?

    • Session 2: Probabilistic parrots

    • Opportunities

    • Perils

    • Are we that different? (Bayesian and deep neural nets)

    • The newborn AI

    • Raising the newborn AI: Training and validation

    • Adopting an AI: What is out there and how to get it.

    • Large language models

    • Session 3: Creating and training AIs

    • Session 4: Running with wolves and dancing alone

  • Public: Research staff (10 positions).
  • Institution of origin: All seconded staff.
  • Duration: 15 hours.
  • Timetable: from 9 to 12h.
  • Calendar and location:
    • 01/12/2025 - Rita Levi
    • 02/12/2025 - Martina Castells
    • 03/12/2025 - Seminar 2.23 (Teaching unit, UdL, in front of IRBLleida)
    • 04/12/2025 - Martina Castells
    • 05/12/2025 - Martina Castells
  • Format: face-to-face.
  • Accreditation: SCT Bioinformatics of the UdL.
  • Registration here