Welcome! This repository contains course materials for the Dartmouth undergraduate course on large language models and chatbots (conversational agents). The syllabus may be found here. Feel free to follow along with the course materials (whether you are officially enrolled in the course or just visiting!), submit comments and suggestions, etc. An outline of the course materials, including links to lecture and discussion videos and assignments may be found here.
This course is taught as an Open Course, meaning that the course is designed from the ground up to be shareable and freely accessible to anyone. All code for this course is written in Python and most of the material is organized in Jupyter notebooks.
Feel free to follow along with this course, do the assignments, post questions and/or issues to this repository or Discord, suggest changes, etc. However, I won't formally evaluate your submitted work unless you are a Dartmouth student who is currently enrolled.
If you are a course instructor teaching overlapping material, feel free to borrow any materials used in this course! If you directly copy (or "draw heavy inspiration from") the materials, I would appreciate a citation (e.g., a pointer to this repository). I'd also love to hear from you about how you're using this resource!
This course is a continually evolving work in progress. I plan to update the material to keep the syllabus fresh and relevant. By the same token, although my goal is 100% accuracy and currency, it's unlikely that I'll achieve that goal. You should participate with the understanding that this material will likely have occasional mistakes, ommissions, errors, etc. Given this fact, one way to approach the course is to maintain an open yet critical view of the material. If you think there's a mistake, I encourage you to bring it to my attention!
We will use the following tools in this course:
- GitHub: used to download code and data, collaborate with other students, and submit course assignments
- Google Colaboratory: a Google resource we will use to write code, download data, and run analyses
- Discord: used to coordinate all course communication. Use this link to join our class server:
- Start by creating a free GitHub account if you don't already have one. (If you already have an account, you may use it for this course.)
- Next, sign into the course's Discord workspace. You can ask questions and get help with all aspects of the course via our Discord community. You'll need to create a (free) Discord account.
- If you don't already have one, create a Google account. (If you already have an account, you may use it for this course.) Make sure you can sign into Colaboratory using this link.