Completed AWS Generative AI with Large Language Models.. Great course!

Rob Marchitti
3 min readMay 7, 2024

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AWS Generative AI with Large Language Models

Completed AWS Generative AI with Large Language Models.. Great course! I would like to share my experience for those who also want to take this course.

My background

Related Experience:

In my past experience with Information Technology, I worked on the implementation of SAP at TIMET (Titanium Metals Corporation) worldwide locations, which was used by over 2500 employees.

I was accountable for training several employees on software used for yearly reviews at the Henderson plant. I was also responsible for working on all other platforms in the IT department.

I have worked on network configuration, troubleshooting and hardware repair at Amazon as well.

Languages: JavaScript, Python, HTML, CSS.

Certifications

CompTIA A+, CompTIA Security+, AWS Certified Solutions Architect — Associate (Digital badges Acclaim)

(If you want to know more about me, you can visit my LinkedIn page)

​What you’ll learn

  • Gain foundational knowledge, practical skills, and a functional understanding of how generative AI works
  • Dive into the latest research on Gen AI to understand how companies are creating value with cutting-edge technology
  • Instruction from expert AWS AI practitioners who actively build and deploy AI in business use-cases today

​Skills you’ll gain

  • Python Programming
  • Machine Learning
  • Large Language Models
  • LLMs
  • Generative AI

About the course

In Generative AI with Large Language Models (LLMs), you’ll learn the fundamentals of how generative AI works, and how to deploy it in real-world applications.

By taking this course, you’ll learn to: — Deeply understand generative AI, describing the key steps in a typical LLM-based generative AI lifecycle, from data gathering and model selection, to performance evaluation and deployment — Describe in detail the transformer architecture that powers LLMs, how they’re trained, and how fine-tuning enables LLMs to be adapted to a variety of specific use cases — Use empirical scaling laws to optimize the model’s objective function across dataset size, compute budget, and inference requirements — Apply state-of-the art training, tuning, inference, tools, and deployment methods to maximize the performance of models within the specific constraints of your project — Discuss the challenges and opportunities that generative AI creates for businesses after hearing stories from industry researchers and practitioners.

Developers who have a good foundational understanding of how LLMs work, as well the best practices behind training and deploying them, will be able to make good decisions for their companies and more quickly build working prototypes. This course will support learners in building practical intuition about how to best utilize this exciting new technology.

This is an intermediate course, so you should have some experience coding in Python to get the most out of it. You should also be familiar with the basics of machine learning, such as supervised and unsupervised learning, loss functions, and splitting data into training, validation, and test sets. If you have taken the Machine Learning Specialization or Deep Learning Specialization from DeepLearning.AI, you’ll be ready to take this course and dive deeper into the fundamentals of generative AI.

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