# AI4Science Training at UFZ 2025

In this AI training for sicentists, we will learn how Generative Artificial Intelligence works, try out various AI systems, and learn how to use such systems properly. We will also dive into responsible AI usage and legal contraints. 

Slides are available [online](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17799126) for reuse. Materials on this website and slides can be reused under the conditions of the [CC-BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en) license.

## Program

9:30 - 10:15 [Introduction and Fundamentals](session1/AIST1_Intro.pdf)

* Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, AI systems and language models
* Application areas and limitations of AI in text generation
* Prompt engineering
* Prompting with large context

10:15 - 11:15 Exercises

* [Speech Generation](session1/speech-generation.md)
* [Deep Research](session1/deepresearch.md)
* [Knowledge distillation](session1/distillation.md)
* [Video Overviews](session1/notebooklm.md)

11:15 - 11:30 Break

11:30 - 12:00 [Advanced Usage](session2/AIST2_Advanced.pdf)

* Knowledge distillation
* Retrieval-Augmented Generation

12:15 - 13:00 Lunch break

13:00 - 13:45 Exercises

* [AI-supported Consulting / Implementation of your own ChatBot](session2/chatbot.md)
* [Searching through Documents](session2/searching_documents.md)
* [Data analysis](session2/ai_data_analysis.md)

13:45 - 14:00 Coffee break

14:00 - 14:45 [Responsible Use of Generative AI and Legal Framework](session3/AIST3_ResponsibleAI.pdf)

* Data protection compliant usage
* Copyright
* EU AI Act

14:45 - 15:30 Exercise, Discussion and free experimentation

* [AI Detectors](session3/ai-detectors.md)
* [Bias Detection](session3/bias_detection.md)

15:30 - 15:45 Final discussion, feedback round

## Trainer

* [Dr. Robert Haase](https://haesleinhuepf.github.io/), [ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig](http://scads.ai/)

## Acknowledgement

We acknowledge the financial support by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research of Germany and by Sächsische Staatsministerium für Wissenschaft, Kultur und Tourismus in the programme Center of Excellence for AI-research "Center for Scalable Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence Dresden/Leipzig", project identification number: ScaDS.AI